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During the reign of emperor Justin I (518-527) the Jewish community on the slopes of Mt Gilboa decided to get a mosaic for their synagogue. The whole village chipped in and paid a certain Marianos to make it. Here a detail of the sacrifice of Issac #byzantine #lateantiquity 1/

.William Noel uses one of my fave projects, Scribes of the Cairo Genizah, to make the point that while digital images are *not* the manuscript there are lots of things you can *only* do w/ images, e.g. crowdsourcing (scribesofthecairogeniza.org) #darkarchives Judaica DH at Penn #darkarchives

Verse markers in gold, with lacework on gold, plus rolling, pricking and punching of gold for texture (Chester Beatty T 559.4, Description of the Prophet by Hafiz Osman, Turkey, 1691-1692) #allthatglitters #Islamicmanuscripts #Turkishmanuscripts #calligraphy #manuscriptMonday

Your pretty page of the day Ebermannstadt Pentateuch (beginning of Deuteronomy) 1290/1349 Danish Royal Library, Cod. Heb. 11

Prenup in Hebrew dated 1048 CE, in which the bride Fāʾiza makes her husband Ṭoviyya promise to give up his bad ways and drinking buddies after marriage—and to not buy a female slave without her express permission! From the Cairo Genizah, at Cambridge: cudl.lib.cam.ac.uk/view/MS-TS-000…

So, it’s nearly Kol Nidre and time to annul all of our vows (כָּל נִדְרֵי)! This resonantly meaningful legal formula is often a colourful set-piece page in Hebrew manuscripts. The image below is from the Leipzig Machzor, c. 1310 (cja.huji.ac.il/browser.php?mo…) #YomKippur5780

A lovely journey through decorated Kol Nidre prayers in our digitized #PolonskyProject Hebrew manuscripts from Stewart J. Brookes.

Another Kol nidre decorated with dragons! Stewart J. Brookes #YomKippur Add MS 11639; 1277-1324; 'The Northern French Miscellany'; f.423v Medieval Manuscripts

This little 🐘 has travelled well! Stewart J. Brookes Bodleian Library MS. Michael 619; Maḥzor for the High Holidays (Rosh ha-Shanah & Yom Kipur),Western Ashkenazi rite;1320–1330; f.130r Bodleian Digital Library Systems and Services Add MS 15282; 1300-1324; 'Duke of Sussex's German Pentateuch'; f.238r BL_HebrewMSS

There are some “hidden” features in Bodleian Digital Library Systems and Services that add a lot of powerful functionality. Here’s a quick run-down of some of my favourites...

So, Twitter linguists, can anyone shed light on this mystery item in the Museum of London stores?

H-O-W is it possible there’s been all this coverage of what Axel Folio, PhD,🔻Paddystinian Powerbroker 🪁 said at #RaceB4Race, and the genius title of her paper has not been more of a thing? I only discovered it because I followed her on Academia.

"This language doesn’t resemble any other known language – but includes elements of #Persian #Arabic #Avestan #Turkish and #Hindi." More on this 'celestial' (āsmānī) language: bl.uk/collection-ite…

Have you had a look at British Library's Discovering Sacred Texts website yet? bl.uk/sacred-texts It contains 314 collection items, including 29 in #Persian: watch the video and see how to find them! #AToUnknown

I'm looking at Antisemitic stereotypes in Spanish comics and children's literature for my current article. Here, in a 1974 comic, is the villain "Salomon", complete with hooked nose, who is distinguished by his avarice, cowardice and low cunning. #twitterstorians #medievaltwitter

Stewart J. Brookes SephardiPal DayenuPal Bodleian Digital Library Systems and Services Bodleian Libraries This one is outrageous! Wow, this is really something