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29 Oct 2025
A STRONG WOMAN FROM 1840 years ago - HER OWN WORDS:
"women who attained maturity are mistresses of their own persons and can remain with their husbands or not as they chose and not as their father commands!"
Petition of Dionysia to the prefect against her father @bodleianlibs
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3 Oct 2025
Caption this image from a 600-year-old Italian manuscript @bodleianlibs
#FridayFeeling #FridayThoughts #Trapped
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4 Sep 2025
HELP
to identify this guy on the margin of this Old Testament commentary from 12th-century England @bodleianlibs
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8 Jul 2025
Partytime in Egypt 2270 years ago:
"at the last party, someone took off all my clothes and stole them, please, Pharaoh, help me investigate their whereabouts to get them back or recieve compensation"
Petition to Ptolemy II
@BLMedieval
Papyrus 2974
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13 Jun 2025
Just a shining golden Canon Table in Arabic (yes!) from a 700-year-old manuscript @bodleianlibs to celebrate sunshine today.
#fridayfeeling #weekend
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19 Mar 2025
An amazing M from a 1000-year-old Greek manuscript @bodleianlibs
Lions or monsters?
#WednesdayMotivation #Lions #animals
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12 Mar 2025
Just two kissing birds to write Δ in this pocket copy of the liturgy of St. Basil @bodleianlibs
#kissday #WednesdayMotivation
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8 Mar 2025
Women in papyri: 7 figures, 7 lives, 7 stories from Egypt 2000 years ago to mark #InternationalWomensDay
Join us meeting Christodora, Maria, Aurelia, Irene and Sarapias and others @bodleianlibs
youtu.be/ynHDUk2Is5A
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6 Mar 2025
Two hugging peacocks to form a X in this stunning 1000-year-old Greek manuscript @bodleianlibs
Byzantine initials are stunning!
#animals #FridayVibes #FridayFeeling #birds
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4 Mar 2025
Letter to boss about 1500 years ago @bodleianlibs
"I have written many times about this issue to your honour and still haven't achieved anything...."
Sounds familiar?
#tuesdayvibe #tuesdaymotivations #boss
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11 Feb 2025
A strong book curse from ca. 600 years ago in a Greek manuscript @bodleianlibs
"...if anyone dares to steal this book... let him have the curse of all 7 ecumenical councils and of myself the sinful monk Gerasimos of Cyprus"
#TuesdayFeeling #tuesdayvibe
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5 Feb 2025
NAME THE BEAST on the margin of this 800-year-old Greek liturgical book @bodleianlibs
Share your guesses
#WednesdayMotivation #wednesdayfeelings #animalsdoingthings
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9 Jan 2025
#OTD 1815 years ago - Congestion charge paid for a
"black female camel having a Y on its right shoulder and another Y on the right side of its jaw"
Even the seal survives @bodleianlibs
#thursdayvibes #thursdaymood
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1 Jan 2025
GOOD LUCK
Wishes read from the stars from about 2000 years ago to mark the #NewYear2025
Happy New Year!
@BLMedieval Papyrus 10
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4 Oct 2024
"If Christodora dares to do any detriment to my possessions, SHE RECEIVES NOTHING and will be deprived of all the dispositions I made in this will"
A strict father bequeathing his htings to his daughter 1490 years ago in his will @bodleianlibs
#FridayHeadlines #fatherhood
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26 Sep 2024
"Isodoros to Hermolaos - I am sending you 60 walnuts, 5 baskets of figs, 20 pomegranates -
AND A PARTRIDGE [in a peartree]"
2270-year-old letter @bodleianlibs with some familar reference (OK almost...)
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26 Sep 2024
Just a nice Π from a 1000-year-old manuscript to brighten your Thursday @bodleianlibs
ENJOY!
#ThursdayMotivation #ThursdayInspiration
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5 Sep 2024
"In the middle of the journey of my life I came to myself within a dark wood where the straight way was lost..."
Dante @bodleianlibs
#ThursdayFeeling #ThursdayThoughts
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5 Sep 2024
How to keep a secret safe - advice from 550 years ago
@bodleianlibs
Don't try this at home...
#ThursdayFeeling #ThursdayWisdom
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12 Aug 2024
HOLIDAY 1778 years ago - visa issued for Aurelia Maeciana by the prefect @bodleianlibs
"Your honor, I would like to sail out of Egypt this month."
At the end prefect says OK in Latin ("dimittimus") - enjoy your summers 😎
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