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Latinist, antiquary, former beak, High Church Scottish Episcopalian, Stage 4 cancer patient.
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At Blythburgh.

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A Child with a Rattle, 1611, attributed to Paulus van Somer I, 1576–1621 (Bridgeman Images)

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In the light of today's Big Game, may I say that every winter Saturday I wake up thankful that I am no longer a second-row forward. #scrumdown

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Coffins stood round like open presses, That shaw’d the Dead in their last dresses, And (by some devilish cantraip sleight) Each in its cauld hand held a light… —in Robert Burns’s 1791 poem, Tam o Shanter stumbles upon a witches’ hoolie in the ruined Alloway kirk… 🖼️ John Faed, 1855 #BookWormSat

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In more pleasant news, the daffodils are out in Pollok Park.

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Ambrosius Holbein Signboard for a Schoolmaster 1516 (Öffentliche Kunstsammlung, Basel, via WGA)

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I took my first-year undergrads to see some manuscripts in the @bodleianlibraries.bsky.social this week. We looked at a Latin bestiary, Jesus College MS 29 (featuring 'The Owl and the Nightingale', which they're studying) and a roll of devotional poems. I particularly liked the bestiary cats.

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Busy day at the Cathedral: Morning Prayer at 8am, Cathedral Eucharist at 10:30am with Schubert's beautiful Mass in G, and Choral Evensong at 3:30pm with Britten's thrilling Te Deum. And at 12:30pm, award-winning pianist Catherine Duncan plays Ginastera's amazing Danza Argentinas!

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Feb 22: Feast of Máel Brigte mac Tornáin (†927), abbot of Iona and Armagh. Owner of the MacDurnan Gospels gifted to King Æthelstan (†939). Dubthach succeeded him at Iona and Ioseph at Armagh. 📸Lambeth Palace Library

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"Therefore they went serenely to their deaths, without a tremor, knowing that the prince of this world is judged." Claudio Magris, 'Danube.'

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Delicate yet intricate: an early modern ornament made by piercing paper, extending through several pages like a hidden lacework woven into the book. #NationalMuseumOfLithuania

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“A ‘nihilistic revolution’ does not pursue any goal [telos], but takes its aim from the ‘movement’ itself and, in so doing, comes close to satanic practice.” - Jacob Taubes, Occidental Eschatology, 11

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Mulier Scotica or 'a Scotsh Woman', Wenceslaus Hollar, 1644 (Rijksmuseum)

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For Herbert, prayer is a kind of transposition to a new key, writes @malcolmguite.bsky.social

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Peter at the fire, denying that he knows Christ. Three times. By Dirck van Baburen who, alas, died OTD 1624.

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16c drafts of the 39 Articles of the Church of England - @corpuscambridge.bsky.social - MS 121. Inky paw prints of an anonymous cat … Some things never change.

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Every Winter ends.

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And we also bless thy holy Name for all thy servants departed this life in thy faith and fear

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🌿☕ Buff tailed bumble 🐝s like this fluffy one & many other insects taste their environment with their feet🐾 I'm so pleased I don't have this skill Locusts taste through their ovipost (the bit where eggs come out, I will leave that to your imagination) 🙃😂🌿 www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/arti...

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Word discovery of the day is ‘yoke-devil’ (17th century): an accomplice in a villainous or immoral undertaking.

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surrounded by circle upon circle of consternations and affrights

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Tak tent!

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Notice all the green

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This is Glasgow's smallest graveyard. It's the former Quaker Burial Ground on Keith Street in Partick. Cont./ #glasgow #partick #glasgowhistory #graveyard #burialground #quakers

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Fridays are coffee and cake at Callendar House. The mango and coconut sponge cake was wonderful. Won't need lunch now.

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Bromborough, Wirral. Brunburg early 12thC. 'Stronghold of a man called Brūna'. Old English personal name + burh. Source: Oxford Dictionary of British #PlaceNames. The site is a leading contender for where the Battle of Brunanburh was fought in 937. 📸Rodhullandemu

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Gamlingay, Cambridgeshire. Morris & Co 1918 Christ in Majesty EW

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Bearded man with a wonderful handlebar moustache from an early 12th century font which originally came from St. Peter's Church at Hutton Cranswick in East Yorkshire. The font is now part of the collections at Hull and East Riding Museum. 📸 My own. #FontsOnFriday #Medieval

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For #findsFriday this beautiful cloisonné clasp from Sutton Hoo. The workmanship is astonishing - gold foil has been set beneath the garnets to reflect light.

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Subscription options need to up their guilt game. “Subscribe for just $5 a month” OR “Continue without subscribing, but just fyi the writer hasn’t bought shoes for five years, subsists on a diet of Haribo and rice, and cried three times while writing this. But sure, read it for free, you leech.”

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Huccaby Bridge #Dartmoor #Devon Heavy overnight & morning rain - the West Dart river in full flow today.

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In Westminster it's all about who you know

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Woodpecker drumming on schedule. Windy. Looks as if today will be a bit of a fox's wedding.

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Saint Philip Neri (1515–1595) 1645 or 1646 Carlo Dolci Dolce completed this work in eight days, probably using Neri’s death mask as the model (Met Museum)

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20 Feb: feast of translation of St Gall #otd companion of Columbanus. Gall was fireside companion to a bear.

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American public opinion used often to regard weird hyper-rich geezers like Howard Hughes, who’d been utterly dehumanised by the pagan death-cult of Mammon, as eccentric irrelevances. Now they’ve come to revere them as the emissaries of μαμμωνᾷ himself, promising the Earth—& Mars

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Good morning ☕️ There are lots of winter snowdrops to be seen in late February as well as crocus and catkins on the hazel trees. Have a wonderful Thursday everyone 🌳🌾🌿 #WildflowerHour #Nature #SpringIsComing #Wildflowers #ThePhotoHour #NaturePhotography

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20 Feb 1626: d. John Dowland, composer, lutenist, singer #otd #music

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#ADoorableThursday. Dalmeny Parish Church, West Lothian. Dedicated to my favourite saint, Cuthbert. Fabulous zodiacal signs, bestiary figures, and grotesque heads adorn the arch of its southern door. Masons' marks suggest the same craftsmen worked on Dunfermline Abbey and Leuchars (St Athernase).

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Beast. @magdalenoxford.bsky.social MS. lat. 149.

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Trees swaying in the wind, horizontal rain, lights needed in the flat, gutters awash in the road. Glad I decided today was to be PJs and the wireless. #coorieddoon

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Firemore Beach, Wester Ross 🔥🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

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When Christian I of Norway failed to pay a dowry for his daughter Margaret, queen to James III, Orkney & Shetland were annexed by the Scottish crown #OTD, 20 Feb, 1472 NORTHERN-NESS looks at literature from the northern isles, from the sagas to the far future www.thebottleimp.org.uk/2019/07/nort...

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