LockdownBestia1

Abecedarium animalium, every weekday. Zookeepers: @manymanyplies and @eparpillee.

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Lockdown Bestiary is an accidental encyclopaedia of various things we happen to know about early modern animals. All contributors welcome.

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That first lockdown menagerie feels a very very long time ago.

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Congratulations to @kristof_smeyers, whose wonderful #LockdownBestiary thread on the raven has taken flight as a book!

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Here are Kristof’s raven ravings:

https://t.co/hFMqGEeDAR

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Morning early risers, today in the #LockdownBestiary R is for Raven (Corvus Corax), that blackest of beasts; shiny feathers, twinkling eyes, shiny beaks that speak doom and bad luck. (Engraving by Whimper)

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O, locked down lovers of animals, do follow @MertonBeasts!

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The lion is the king of beasts, he takes them and devours. You'll hear of him and others in this Bestiary of ours.

#LockdownBestiary #Oxford #NotALion #NotABadZebra

📷 Merton College, MS 249, f. 1v

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NB: The best #NotALion I have seen in a long time! and the lipstick! Actually called "leopard" here. Fun fact: 1654 copied from a model ca. 1500 but obv. comes from an even older coat of arms - sth for @LockdownBestia1 w/ neat #medievaltwitter-earlymodern crossover!

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Looks amazing!

[Harriet Ritvo @HRitvo]

To be published in November

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For @LockdownBestia1!

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for #LockdownBestiary #NotanElephant @eparpillee

[Cathy Rosamund Stillman-Lowe @SlCathy]

Some British Library calendar treats. @LockdownBestia1 @AphraPell @julianpharrison @PosyHill1

These Zodiac symbols within small roundels are eye-popping. Left, not enough legs perhaps? Right, far far too MANY legs! Eek.

Add MS 62925, better known as the Rutland Psalter. 🦀

[John Gallagher @earlymodernjohn]

Excited to say that tomorrow night I'll be presenting @BBCFreeThinking for the first time, speaking to @FiddianQasmiyeh, @tipton_rebecca, and @tomscottsmith for a #RefugeeWeek2020 special. Tune in to @BBCRadio3 at 10pm to hear about the latest research on refugees and migration!

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@eparpillee @earlymodernjohn @OliveFSmith @manymanyplies "I" am the Scottish one in this instance, because I'm hiding from my other twitter account at the moment.

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@eparpillee @earlymodernjohn @OliveFSmith @manymanyplies That's not true I also know that the OED etymology is a lovely place to be.

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C is for CATERPILLAR - and for CAN ANYONE HELP?

[Olivia Smith @OliveFSmith]

Do you know anything about caterpillars c.1600?

[Sarah Cooper @sarahcpr]

How to lobster

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Z is for ZOO and ZEBU and ZEBRA and and and

[BL Prints & Drawings @BL_prints]

@LockdownBestia1 Also A View of the Menagerie, and its Pavillion at Kew, 1763.
zzzz The paddocks extending beyond contained a variety of animals, including zebu and a quagga (an extinct subspecies of zebra):
https://t.co/MB8z4Q6pyE

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Z is for ZOO!

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@kristof_smeyers @LockdownBestia1 stretching 'early modern', but https://t.co/Mmpho68zNA #LockdownBestiary

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@kristof_smeyers what a gorgeous little frame!

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Z is for Zzzz! take a nap!

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Zzz: here an 18th-century miniature painting of the first armadillo to make it alive 'from the Mosquito Shore to Lord Southwell who presented it to the Prince of Wales' (1763). The armadillo are one of the sleepiest subjects of the animal kingdom #LockdownBestiary

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Z is for spiritual ZOOKEEPERS!

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Around 1000BCE emperor Wen Wang opened 'Ling-Yu', a 'divine park' with deer, fish, birds that served as an animal conduit between humans and spirits #LockdownBestiary