Anyone working at the British Library today happen to have an iPhone charger I could borrow 😬😬🤞🏼🤞🏼?

My face when I realised I’d left my phone charger at home today… 🤦🏼‍♀️ BL Sloane MS 2320, f.20r

My go-to drink every evening 🍷🍷

Twitter pals, my visual literacy is terrible, does anyone recognise either of the figures in this illustration? Are they supposed to resemble a known person/saint/religious figure, or are they a meaningless (but very pretty!) doodle? BnF NAL 693, f.1v.

I’m not sure this is what the scribe intended when they left a gap for the illustrator… 🍆 BL Sloane MS 56, f.90r

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Looking forward to finally giving my first IMC_Leeds paper on Monday afternoon!

Strongly recommend reading with a G&T in hand!

Indulging the Yorkist nerd in me by finishing my library day with this Apothecary’s MS, which records medical treatments given to Edward IV and the Dukes of Gloucester and Clarence, among others 📖🌿💊 BL Harley MS 1628

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This is raising too many questions for me about modern perceptions of how magic works and the efficacy of Latin in particular as a language of numinous power… vm.tiktok.com/ZGJEj1vMu/

A very tiny glimpse into the diverse uses of the Sator Arepo formula 📜

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Here is the latest post in our fabulous Migrating Materia Medica Blog. Thanks to Lavinia Gambini Cambridge Material Culture Workshop for her fascinating article on foreign street vendors hawking their exotic wares in early modern Italy #materialculture #medhums #trade research.kent.ac.uk/material-studi…

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