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Bodleian Libraries @bodleian.ox.ac.uk · 28/07/2025

RIP Ozzy Osbourne. We scoured the archives to find our best medieval bats in the rocker’s honour. #MedievalMonday. 1. Bodleian Library MS. Canon. Misc. 554 2: Bodleian Library MS. Ashmole 304. 3: Bodleian Library MS. Bodl. 764. 4: Bodleian Library MS. Ashmole 1511.

Illuminated bat from the Ashmole bestiary showing a bat on a gold background inside a red and green frame. The bat is brown with black wings and cartoonish, with incongrously detailed human-looking facial features.

Three outlines of three bats as marginalia in a yellowed page from a Bodleian manuscript. The bat marginalia are hastily drawn (likely added by a different hand than the scribe who wrote and illustrated the rest of the text). The bats have simplistic facial expresisons; one has two eyes and a straight line for a mouth, the second has a soft smile, and the third has something between the two.

A page from a bestiary showing Latin text and a black bat illustration in an embossed gold square. The bats wings look feathered and the shape is bird like, suggesting whoever drew it may not have seen a bat up close before.

An immediately strange looking illustration from a medieval Paduan text. A bat flies above an illustration of a man, and both are roughly the same size. The bat has cat like legs and a long tail, and is shaped like a winged rat.

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amissoledades.bsky.social @amissoledades.bsky.social · 28/07/2025

Bod you never cease to surprise me.

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Steve Jeffery, but Spooky 🍸💀📚 @zincstoat.uk · 28/07/2025

Mmm, crunchy. 😏🦇

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Debbie M @heavenstobetsie.bsky.social · 28/07/2025

Commending the excellent alt text, good work

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