Manuscript Match

### What are you looking for in a manuscript? [[Science]] [[History]] [[Music]] [[Literature]] [[Beauty]] [[I don't have time for this; just show me something amazing]]

### What kind of science? [[Astronomy]] [[Biology]] [[Geography]] [[Sorry, did I say science? I meant mathematics]] [[Fiction]]

### What matters most to you in a manuscript? [[The text]] [[The decoration]] [[The hand]] [[The spelling]] [[Whether a Tudor ever owned it]]

### Music and lyrics? [[Yes please]] [[Just lyrics is fine]]

### With pictures, or just text? [[Just text is fine]] [[Pictures, please]]

### Inner or outer beauty? [[It has to look good on a shelf]] [[I don't care about the outside as long as the inside looks nice]] [[Ideally something internally gorgeous with a shabby but clearly expensive velvet binding|Turn it up to 11]]

### By "astronomy", do you mean "fanciful pictures of constellations"? [[Yes]] [[Uh, no]]

### People, plants or animals? [[People]] [[Plants]] [[Animals]]

### Will you be annoyed if we reduce geography to maps? [[No, I know you mean well]] [[Yes, but I'd still like to see a nice map]]

### Which language and how many figures? [[Hebrew and not very many]] [[Greek and a judicious number]] [[Latin and absolutely dripping with them]]

Your manuscript is [[MS. Abinger c. 57->https://iiif.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/iiif/viewer/d2e2e8b7-eb92-478f-9ed8-3bfede128e3e]], volume II of Mary Shelley's draft of her novel Frankenstein. <img src="https://iiif.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/iiif/image/d2e2e8b7-eb92-478f-9ed8-3bfede128e3e/full/full/0/default.jpg" width="500"> [[Start over|Start]]

Your manuscript is [[MS. Ashmole 399->https://iiif.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/iiif/viewer/e9174677-f34c-46e3-a813-92c2dc0dcf8a]], a rare 13th-century compendium of illustrated medical texts. It's famous for its five full-page diagrams showing the human body's veins, arteries, bones, nerves and muscles. <img src="https://iiif.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/iiif/image/e9174677-f34c-46e3-a813-92c2dc0dcf8a/full/full/0/default.jpg" width="500"> [[Start over|Start]]

### What are you hoping to do with the plants? [[Identify real-world specimens]] [[Learn about their uses in medieval medicine]] [[Create a fruit-picking calendar]]

### Which is more important to you--gold leaf or scientific accuracy? [[Gold leaf]] [[Scientific accuracy]] [[I'm not that fond of either]]

Your manuscript is [[MS. Sherard 241->https://iiif.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/iiif/viewer/0f420adc-1c10-4f91-ad1a-606306d66aed]], volume 1 of Ferdinand Bauer's Flora Graeca watercolours. <img src="https://iiif.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/iiif/image/0f420adc-1c10-4f91-ad1a-606306d66aed/full/full/0/default.jpg" width="500"> [[Start over|Start]]

Your manuscript is [[MS. Bodl. 130->https://iiif.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/iiif/viewer/e30d353a-4c0b-4e4d-9af3-7afda5e9fb1b]], an 11th-century herbarium. <img src="https://iiif.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/iiif/image/e30d353a-4c0b-4e4d-9af3-7afda5e9fb1b/full/full/0/default.jpg" width="500"> [[Start over|Start]]

Your manuscript is [[MS. Ashmole 1511->https://iiif.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/iiif/viewer/48525995-1eb0-4117-8398-283b8b0cb4c2]], the richly-illustrated 13th-century Ashmole Bestiary. <img src="https://iiif.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/iiif/image/48525995-1eb0-4117-8398-283b8b0cb4c2/full/full/0/default.jpg" width="500"> [[Start over|Start]]

Your manuscript is [[MS. Sherard 238->https://iiif.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/iiif/viewer/e2e42d43-fb69-44be-9698-f10f06d8753c]], volume 1 of Ferdinand Bauer's never-published Fauna Graeca watercolours: detailed paintings of animals found in the Mediterranean region. <img src="https://iiif.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/iiif/image/e2e42d43-fb69-44be-9698-f10f06d8753c/full/full/0/default.jpg" width="500"> [[Start over|Start]]

Your manuscript is [[MS. Bodl. 764->https://iiif.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/iiif/viewer/e2cf32ff-a5bd-460f-82ba-6589f5035a27]], a 13th-century English bestiary. <img src="https://iiif.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/iiif/image/e2cf32ff-a5bd-460f-82ba-6589f5035a27/full/full/0/default.jpg" width="500"> [[Start over|Start]]

Your manuscript is [[MS. Bodl. Or. 133->https://iiif.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/iiif/viewer/af05c73f-f70b-4c4c-afc9-d7dcdec42366]], the Arabic Kitāb al-Bulhān or "Book of Wonders". <img src="https://iiif.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/iiif/image/af05c73f-f70b-4c4c-afc9-d7dcdec42366/full/full/0/default.jpg" width="500"> [[Start over|Start]]

Your manuscript is [[MS. Pococke 368->https://iiif.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/iiif/viewer/5f04da2c-72a3-4eda-b82b-c790a14a90a7]], a 15th-century copy of Isaac ben Joseph Israeli's Yesod Olam or "The Foundation of the World", illustrated with diagrams. <img src="https://iiif.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/iiif/image/5f04da2c-72a3-4eda-b82b-c790a14a90a7/full/full/0/default.jpg" width="500"> [[Start over|Start]]

### Thank you! What sort of map would you like? [[A navigational aid]] [[A beautiful shipping schematic]] [[A road atlas]] [[Semi-abstract art]]

### What sort of map? [[A navigational aid]] [[A beautiful shipping schematic]] [[A road atlas]] [[Semi-abstract art]]

Your manuscript is [[MS. Marsh 294->https://iiif.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/iiif/viewer/2dc2d0f7-00d6-458d-8be5-0afdd8221a4a]], an Arabic portolan atlas. <img src="https://iiif.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/iiif/image/2dc2d0f7-00d6-458d-8be5-0afdd8221a4a/full/full/0/default.jpg" width="500"> [[Start over|Start]]

Your manuscript is [[MS. Selden supra 105->https://iiif.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/iiif/viewer/866462cc-d658-41da-a33d-5a8c375b1ac0]], the Selden Map of China, which depicts shipping routes in China and Southeast Asia. <img src="https://iiif.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/iiif/image/866462cc-d658-41da-a33d-5a8c375b1ac0/full/full/0/default.jpg" width="500"> [[Start over|Start]]

Your manuscript is [[MS. Gough Gen. Top. 16->https://iiif.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/iiif/viewer/740b0937-0500-4692-a970-ba801e4a1f24]], the oldest extant road map of Britain, produced in the 14th century. <img src="https://iiif.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/iiif/image/740b0937-0500-4692-a970-ba801e4a1f24/full/full/0/default.jpg" width="500"> [[Start over|Start]]

Your manuscript is [[MS. Greaves 42->https://iiif.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/iiif/viewer/f8788cf7-2544-4ef0-973b-abdcf9ff05a8]], a 12th-century Arabic atlas. This image shows Yemen. <img src="https://iiif.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/iiif/image/f8788cf7-2544-4ef0-973b-abdcf9ff05a8/full/full/0/default.jpg" width="500"> [[Start over|Start]]

### Which language? [[Arabic]] [[English]] [[French]] [[Greek]] [[Hebrew]] [[Irish]] [[Italian]] [[Persian]] [[Welsh]] [[Look, this is getting tedious, please just show me some medieval batshittery]]

### What kind of decoration? [[Charmingly amateurish]] [[Elegant and minimalist]] [[Turn it up to 11]]

### What's your favourite script? [[Anglicana]] [[Ashkenazi semi-cursive]] [[Nastaʻlīq]] [[Uncial]] [[I can't decide]]

Your manuscript is [[MS. Junius 1->https://iiif.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/iiif/viewer/ee810c46-db5b-4ce9-ae3e-e4c512bce725]], the Orrmulum, a 12th-century manuscript in phonetic English written by the monk Orrm. <img src="https://iiif.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/iiif/image/ee810c46-db5b-4ce9-ae3e-e4c512bce725/full/full/0/default.jpg" width="500"> [[Start over|Start]]

### Which Tudor? [[Elizabeth I]] [[Henry VIII]] [[Anyone who was brave enough to marry one]]

Your manuscript is [[MS. Pococke 400->https://iiif.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/iiif/viewer/c0479ad9-3341-44dd-9b81-889b0b190519]], Ibn al-Muqaffaʻ's 8th-century Arabic translation of the Sanskrit Panchatantra, a collection of fables. <img src="https://iiif.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/iiif/image/c0479ad9-3341-44dd-9b81-889b0b190519/full/full/0/default.jpg" width="500"> [[Start over|Start]]

### Which is more important to you? [[Social satire]] [[Line drawings of Biblical scenes]] [[General heft]]

Your manuscript is [[MS. Douce 195->https://iiif.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/iiif/viewer/758a0fdd-6495-4851-84de-fa9f74eb7a7a]], a 15th-century copy of the Roman de la Rose. <img src="https://iiif.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/iiif/image/758a0fdd-6495-4851-84de-fa9f74eb7a7a/full/full/0/default.jpg" width="500"> [[Start over|Start]]

Your manuscript is [[MS. Rawl. B. 514->https://iiif.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/iiif/viewer/05e9f562-751c-49b6-a38c-958b7830d151]], which contains the Life of St Colum Cille and bardic poetry. <img src="https://iiif.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/iiif/image/05e9f562-751c-49b6-a38c-958b7830d151/full/full/0/default.jpg" width="500"> [[Start over|Start]]

### Poetry or prose? [[Poetry]] [[Prose]]

### Decorated? [[Sparingly]] [[Unforgettably]]

Your manuscript is [[Jesus College MS 20->https://iiif.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/iiif/viewer/fa729fe3-a610-460f-aa0d-7d7a347dce11]], a miscellany of poetry and genealogy. <img src="https://iiif.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/iiif/image/fa729fe3-a610-460f-aa0d-7d7a347dce11/full/full/0/default.jpg" width="500"> [[Start over|Start]]

Your manuscript is [[MS. Huntington 16->https://iiif.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/iiif/viewer/69f01c53-8049-4ba1-88db-7ef8132548d3]], a Hebrew translation of Euclid's Elements and Theodosius of Bythnia's Sphaerics. <img src="https://iiif.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/iiif/image/69f01c53-8049-4ba1-88db-7ef8132548d3/full/full/0/default.jpg" width="500"> [[Start over|Start]]

Your manuscript is [[MS. D'Orville 301->https://iiif.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/iiif/viewer/9d485f35-049b-440c-aef1-22792c0d483b]], the oldest surviving manuscript of the commoner version of Euclid's Elements, dating from 9th-century Constantinople. <img src="https://iiif.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/iiif/image/9d485f35-049b-440c-aef1-22792c0d483b/full/full/0/default.jpg" width="500"> [[Start over|Start]]

Your manuscript is [[St John's College MS 17->https://iiif.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/iiif/viewer/a3af1984-73de-4f15-91a8-35ce67f0c669]], a 12th-century computistical miscellany compiled at Thorney Abbey in 1110. <img src="https://iiif.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/iiif/image/a3af1984-73de-4f15-91a8-35ce67f0c669/full/full/0/default.jpg" width="500"> [[Start over|Start]]

### How much time do you have? [[Lots]] [[Some]] [[Not very much at all]]

Your manuscript is [[MS. Oppenheim 154->https://iiif.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/iiif/viewer/78b819fd-b775-4a26-b434-5aff609288a0]], Isaac ben Solomon Sahula's "Fables from the distant past". <img src="https://iiif.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/iiif/image/78b819fd-b775-4a26-b434-5aff609288a0/full/full/0/default.jpg" width="500"> [[Start over|Start]]

Your manuscript is [[MS. Barocci 203->https://iiif.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/iiif/viewer/e61de705-03dc-4cdc-986c-3802befa4e6a]], the *Iliad* in a 15th-century edition. <img src="https://iiif.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/iiif/image/e61de705-03dc-4cdc-986c-3802befa4e6a/full/full/0/default.jpg" width="500"> [[Start over|Start]]

Your manuscript is [[MS. Barocci 47->https://iiif.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/iiif/viewer/f8b08778-ee2f-48aa-9c47-0e46adc5ef89]], a 15th-century paraphrase of the *Iliad*. <img src="https://iiif.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/iiif/image/f8b08778-ee2f-48aa-9c47-0e46adc5ef89/full/full/0/default.jpg" width="500"> [[Start over|Start]]

Your manuscript is [[MS. Gr. class. a. 1 (P)->https://iiif.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/iiif/viewer/00b26820-b289-4d38-a380-eab17b28ed43]], papyrus fragments of the *Iliad* from the 2nd century. <img src="https://iiif.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/iiif/image/00b26820-b289-4d38-a380-eab17b28ed43/full/full/0/default.jpg" width="500"> [[Start over|Start]]

Your manuscript is [[MS. Don. e. 7->https://iiif.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/iiif/viewer/1b552164-1207-4966-928d-d8485bc48ec3]], Jane Austen's "Volume the First" in her own hand. <img src="https://iiif.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/iiif/image/1b552164-1207-4966-928d-d8485bc48ec3/full/full/0/default.jpg" width="500"> [[Start over|Start]]

Your manuscript is [[MS. Junius 11->https://iiif.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/iiif/viewer/9b6c90f1-d406-43a5-b223-d9212933ff71]], an Anglo-Saxon Biblical manuscript in Old English verse. <img src="https://iiif.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/iiif/image/9b6c90f1-d406-43a5-b223-d9212933ff71/full/full/0/default.jpg" width="500"> [[Start over|Start]]

Your manuscript is [[MS. Eng. poet. a. 1->https://iiif.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/iiif/viewer/449c5828-e71e-4a09-94c5-0c9765935fe8]], the Vernon Manuscript, a compendium of early English poetry. It weighs 22 kilos. <img src="https://iiif.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/iiif/image/449c5828-e71e-4a09-94c5-0c9765935fe8/full/full/0/default.jpg" width="500"> [[Start over|Start]]

Your manuscript is [[MS. Holkham misc. 48->https://iiif.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/iiif/viewer/c85be96c-dde9-492c-8f2a-d85597421124]], the earliest complete illuminated copy of Dante's *Divine Comedy*. <img src="https://iiif.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/iiif/image/c85be96c-dde9-492c-8f2a-d85597421124/full/full/0/default.jpg" width="500"> [[Start over|Start]]

Your manuscript is [[MS. Holkham misc. 49->https://iiif.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/iiif/viewer/9c1e3a8a-4252-4d7b-95d0-c80fcca9d97b]], an illuminated 15th-century copy of Boccaccio's *Decameron*. <img src="https://iiif.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/iiif/image/9c1e3a8a-4252-4d7b-95d0-c80fcca9d97b/full/full/0/default.jpg" width="500"> [[Start over|Start]]

Your manuscript is [[MS. Ouseley 140->https://iiif.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/iiif/viewer/b20d5b5a-c29a-4c8e-9e58-56f34b4a3eca]], a collection of 158 rubā‘īyāt (quatrains) of ‘Umar Khayyām. <img src="https://iiif.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/iiif/image/b20d5b5a-c29a-4c8e-9e58-56f34b4a3eca/full/full/0/default.jpg" width="500"> [[Start over|Start]]

Your manuscript is [[MS. Canon. Or. 122->https://iiif.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/iiif/viewer/26e0465b-ece3-4c90-aa14-e74af39def2e]], a richly illuminated volume of Persian poetry. <img src="https://iiif.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/iiif/image/26e0465b-ece3-4c90-aa14-e74af39def2e/full/full/0/default.jpg" width="500"> [[Start over|Start]]

Your manuscript is [[MS. Canon. Or. 41->https://iiif.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/iiif/viewer/ea49961a-66a2-4f48-9264-cdf1fa958261]], a 14th-century Spanish Pentateuch with dense marginal doodles. <img src="https://iiif.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/iiif/image/ea49961a-66a2-4f48-9264-cdf1fa958261/full/full/0/default.jpg" width="500"> [[Start over|Start]]

Your manuscript is [[MS. Douce 374->https://iiif.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/iiif/viewer/67563908-c6d7-424d-a46b-1b150c790bb4]], the *Miracles de Nostre Dame*, illustrated with grisaille miniatures. <img src="https://iiif.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/iiif/image/67563908-c6d7-424d-a46b-1b150c790bb4/full/full/0/default.jpg" width="500"> [[Start over|Start]]

### All right, you want a Book of Hours. We're not judging. Let's talk specifics. [[Knights in tents and fat dogs on hunting expeditions]] [[Lion-man hybrids in blue cloaks]] [[Trompe l'oeil flowers]] [[Grumpy saints]]

Your manuscript is [[MS. Douce 93->https://iiif.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/iiif/viewer/7e5b66da-e7dd-47d5-afb5-44ba73d29fd2]], a Dutch Book of Hours illuminated by the Master of Gijsbrecht van Brederode. <img src="https://iiif.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/iiif/image/7e5b66da-e7dd-47d5-afb5-44ba73d29fd2/full/full/0/default.jpg" width="500"> [[Start over|Start]]

Your manuscript is [[MS. Douce 62->https://iiif.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/iiif/viewer/c5724a99-c4c1-4256-969d-55e13161dc3f]], a French Book of Hours illuminated in part by Zenobi da Firenze. <img src="https://iiif.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/iiif/image/c5724a99-c4c1-4256-969d-55e13161dc3f/full/full/0/default.jpg" width="500"> [[Start over|Start]]

Your manuscript is [[MS. Douce 112->https://iiif.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/iiif/viewer/d7189daf-08e1-49cc-a76b-ebcc7e8831be]], a Flemish Book of Hours illuminated by the Master of the David Scenes in the Grimani Breviary. <img src="https://iiif.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/iiif/image/d7189daf-08e1-49cc-a76b-ebcc7e8831be/full/full/0/default.jpg" width="500"> [[Start over|Start]]

Your manuscript is [[MS. Douce 231->https://iiif.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/iiif/viewer/deb88ddd-0a65-4f38-8709-3591e767aa56]], a 14th-century English Book of Hours. <img src="https://iiif.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/iiif/image/deb88ddd-0a65-4f38-8709-3591e767aa56/full/full/0/default.jpg" width="500"> [[Start over|Start]]

Your manuscript is [[Corpus Christi College MS 198->https://iiif.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/iiif/viewer/f7575bc6-82e2-4ef4-a4b2-dd5d838d7adc]], the *Canterbury Tales*. <img src="https://iiif.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/iiif/image/f7575bc6-82e2-4ef4-a4b2-dd5d838d7adc/full/full/0/default.jpg" width="500"> [[Start over|Start]]

Your manuscript is [[MS. Oppenheim 248->https://iiif.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/iiif/viewer/dca69cc3-b29a-45c1-be55-7f8ea7e8774f]], a Babylonian Talmud with text arranged in carmina figurata. <img src="https://iiif.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/iiif/image/dca69cc3-b29a-45c1-be55-7f8ea7e8774f/full/full/0/default.jpg" width="500"> [[Start over|Start]]

Your manuscript is [[MS. Pers. d. 102->https://iiif.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/iiif/viewer/eb531ccc-dc12-44a7-b582-229a96d70fec]], an illustrated copy of *Lailā u Majnūn*. <img src="https://iiif.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/iiif/image/eb531ccc-dc12-44a7-b582-229a96d70fec/full/full/0/default.jpg" width="500"> [[Start over|Start]]

Your manuscript is [[MS. Laud Gr. 35->https://iiif.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/iiif/viewer/0babee51-baf1-4567-8b8a-89455ffd1235]], the "Laudian Acts of the Apostles", created in c. 600. <img src="https://iiif.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/iiif/image/0babee51-baf1-4567-8b8a-89455ffd1235/full/full/0/default.jpg" width="500"> [[Start over|Start]]

Your manuscript is [[Christ Church MS 180->https://iiif.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/iiif/viewer/a5da9fb7-72c4-44d9-9d2d-d48d1ad2e4de]], a volume of psalms created by 16th-century calligrapher Esther Inglis to present to Elizabeth I, featuring 17 different scripts. <img src="https://iiif.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/iiif/image/a5da9fb7-72c4-44d9-9d2d-d48d1ad2e4de/full/full/0/default.jpg" width="500"> [[Start over|Start]]

### How many Oxford colleges can you name? [[Fewer than five]] [[At least five, and I'm open to learning more]]

Your manuscript is [[Queen's College MS 313->https://iiif.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/iiif/viewer/d54dd4b2-fefa-4954-9a22-a4c6a9238489]], a volume of New Testament books bound for Henry VIII. <img src="https://iiif.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/iiif/image/d54dd4b2-fefa-4954-9a22-a4c6a9238489/full/full/0/default.jpg" width="500"> [[Start over|Start]]

Your manuscript is [[Exeter College MS 47->https://iiif.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/iiif/viewer/98170b08-b45a-4b34-8b59-e6aaf1d8de40]], a psalter bearing the signatures of Elizabeth of York and Katherine of Aragon. <img src="https://iiif.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/iiif/image/98170b08-b45a-4b34-8b59-e6aaf1d8de40/full/full/0/default.jpg" width="500"> [[Start over|Start]]

Your manuscript is [[MS. Bodl. 13->https://iiif.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/iiif/viewer/f662b42d-f363-46e8-bc2d-136d9931c705]], an illustrated guide to Oxford produced for Elizabeth I's visit in 1566. <img src="https://iiif.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/iiif/image/f662b42d-f363-46e8-bc2d-136d9931c705/full/full/0/default.jpg" width="500"> [[Start over|Start]]

### Do you have at least three friends? [[Yes?]] [[No]]

Your manuscript is [[MS. Douce 308->https://iiif.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/iiif/viewer/aa2aa5b6-c9f7-4b9c-89c8-0b37eda31d96]], a 14th-century French chansonnier. <img src="https://iiif.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/iiif/image/aa2aa5b6-c9f7-4b9c-89c8-0b37eda31d96/full/full/0/default.jpg" width="500"> [[Start over|Start]]

You do now. Your manuscript is [[MS. Canon. Bibl. Lat. 61->https://iiif.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/iiif/viewer/8aa1d86d-b4d7-433c-89d3-219c93f760bd]], a Croatian gospel lectionary brilliantly illustrated with birds, lions and people. <img src="https://iiif.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/iiif/image/8aa1d86d-b4d7-433c-89d3-219c93f760bd/full/full/0/default.jpg" width="500"> [[Start over|Start]]

Your manuscript is [[Christ Church Mus 45->https://iiif.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/iiif/viewer/71c80ea5-5b80-41b7-be77-1ec89b1d9117]], a 16th-century "table book" of music by Byrd, Tallis and Sheppard, arranged for four voices. The parts are arranged at different angles on the page, so that they can be read by people standing around the book. <img src="https://iiif.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/iiif/image/71c80ea5-5b80-41b7-be77-1ec89b1d9117/full/full/0/default.jpg" width="500"> [[Start over|Start]]

### What would you like to see? [[Animals]] [[Literary heroes]] [[Royal life]] [[The apocalypse]] [[Abstract designs, mostly]] [[This is going to sound weird but I've always wondered what it would look like if bees were used in siege warfare]] [[A little bit of everything, but mostly vines]]

### What's your preferred aesthetic? [[Handsome English library]] [[Persian splendour]] [[Ornate tomb]]

Your manuscript is [[MS. Bodley Or. 3->https://iiif.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/iiif/viewer/7f5bf67d-ac26-4478-a03f-7329905c52d4]], a tiny Hebrew Book of Psalms bound in gold-tooled leather. <img src="https://iiif.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/iiif/image/7f5bf67d-ac26-4478-a03f-7329905c52d4/full/full/0/default.jpg" width="500"> [[Start over|Start]]

Your manuscript is [[MS. Bodl. Or. 793->https://iiif.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/iiif/viewer/f59b4fe2-a40a-4868-bfdf-6a667223ae12]], a gorgeous Persian Qurʼān in its original gilt binding. <img src="https://iiif.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/iiif/image/f59b4fe2-a40a-4868-bfdf-6a667223ae12/full/full/0/default.jpg" width="500"> [[Start over|Start]]

Your manuscript is [[MS. Douce 292->https://iiif.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/iiif/viewer/636fce19-35c8-447c-b77a-3148c07d8e7f]], the Liège Gospels, in its original 11th-century ivory binding. <img src="https://iiif.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/iiif/image/636fce19-35c8-447c-b77a-3148c07d8e7f/full/full/0/default.jpg" width="500"> [[Start over|Start]]

### Which part? [[The events of Revelation]] [[Judgment and punishment]]

Your manuscript is [[MS. Kennicott 1->https://iiif.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/iiif/viewer/7168d9eb-c687-44a2-a3dc-47591477b115]], a Hebrew Bible decorated in La Coruña, Spain. <img src="https://iiif.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/iiif/image/7168d9eb-c687-44a2-a3dc-47591477b115/full/full/0/default.jpg" width="500"> [[Start over|Start]]

Your manuscript is [[Christ Church MS 92->https://iiif.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/iiif/viewer/cad067bf-4221-4b79-8332-0fdab81d2929]], an ornately decorated 13th-century text on nobility and jurisprudence, which ends with a series of uncoloured drawings of siege warfare. <img src="https://iiif.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/iiif/image/cad067bf-4221-4b79-8332-0fdab81d2929/full/full/0/default.jpg" width="500"> [[Start over|Start]]

### Will you feel insecure if your manuscript is more beautiful than you are? [[What? No]] [[Maybe, but I'm very beautiful]] [[Yes, let's steer clear of anything too conventionally attractive]]

### What type of story? [[War epic]] [[Time travel]]

### How many elephants? [[One or two]] [[Dozens]]

Your manuscript is [[MS. Ouseley Add. 176->https://iiif.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/iiif/viewer/b5eb2861-52a4-4c00-864f-f5f5c244588f]], the *Shāhnāmah-ʼi Firdawsī*. <img src="https://iiif.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/iiif/image/b5eb2861-52a4-4c00-864f-f5f5c244588f/full/full/0/default.jpg" width="500"> [[Start over|Start]]

Your manuscript is [[MS. Jap. c. 4 (R)->https://iiif.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/iiif/viewer/02ba4322-fe6e-466c-84bd-a6e3a41cfc5e]], a Japanese scroll illustrating the fairytale of the fisherman Urashima Taro. <img src="https://iiif.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/iiif/image/02ba4322-fe6e-466c-84bd-a6e3a41cfc5e/full/full/0/default.jpg" width="500"> [[Start over|Start]]

Your manuscript is [[MS. Douce 180->https://iiif.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/iiif/viewer/6e47bb53-deb4-413e-a233-bbc811c124c5]], an illustrated Anglo-Norman Apocalypse. <img src="https://iiif.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/iiif/image/6e47bb53-deb4-413e-a233-bbc811c124c5/full/full/0/default.jpg" width="500"> [[Start over|Start]]

Your manuscript is [[MS. Douce 134->https://iiif.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/iiif/viewer/3ac36685-ddae-4f44-b1d4-053949196aad]], the *Livre de la Vigne nostre Seigneur*, depicting the coming of the Antichrist and the punishment of sinners. <img src="https://iiif.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/iiif/image/3ac36685-ddae-4f44-b1d4-053949196aad/full/full/0/default.jpg" width="500"> [[Start over|Start]]

Your manuscript is [[MS. Ouseley Add. 166->https://iiif.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/iiif/viewer/81d45696-3998-4f3d-9614-5606f1843a13]], an album of Indian paintings showing court scenes. <img src="https://iiif.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/iiif/image/81d45696-3998-4f3d-9614-5606f1843a13/full/full/0/default.jpg" width="500"> [[Start over|Start]]

Your manuscript is [[MS. Burm. a. 7->https://iiif.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/iiif/viewer/b9d806d3-1203-4419-bfe8-5fd7f48411c2]], a Burmese parabeik showing a royal procession. <img src="https://iiif.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/iiif/image/b9d806d3-1203-4419-bfe8-5fd7f48411c2/full/full/0/default.jpg" width="500"> [[Start over|Start]]

Your manuscript is [[MS. Bodl. 264->https://iiif.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/iiif/viewer/beebca02-6ca2-4051-9c1e-46fce190e3aa]], the *Romance of Alexander*. <img src="https://iiif.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/iiif/image/beebca02-6ca2-4051-9c1e-46fce190e3aa/full/full/0/default.jpg" width="500"> [[Start over|Start]]

Your manuscript is [[MS. Douce 366->https://iiif.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/iiif/viewer/0a90fc67-dac4-4590-9558-a72edd5af765]], the Ormesby Psalter. <img src="https://iiif.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/iiif/image/0a90fc67-dac4-4590-9558-a72edd5af765/full/full/0/default.jpg" width="500"> [[Start over|Start]]

Your manuscript is [[MS. Canon. Or. 41->https://iiif.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/iiif/viewer/e57ba8ed-ef48-4e1d-a3c3-0e0f5ea01632]], a 14th-century Pentateuch decorated with marginal doodles. <img src="https://iiif.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/iiif/image/e57ba8ed-ef48-4e1d-a3c3-0e0f5ea01632/full/full/0/default.jpg" width="500"> [[Start over|Start]]

### What would you like to read about? [[A nation's struggle for sovereignty]] [[Early modern land ownership]] [[Eyewitness reporting on a humanitarian crisis]]

### Which empire would you like to see a pictorial history of? [[Aztec]] [[Late Roman]]

Your manuscript is [[MS. Wardrop c. 16->https://iiif.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/iiif/viewer/8db3166c-9abd-4626-9987-3c7250d32c67]], the 1907 "Memorandum of the people of Georgia", signed by 3000 people and submitted to the Hague Convention. <img src="https://iiif.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/iiif/image/8db3166c-9abd-4626-9987-3c7250d32c67/full/full/0/default.jpg" width="500"> [[Start over|Start]]

Your manuscript is [[Christ Church l.c.2->https://iiif.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/iiif/viewer/df410dfd-6874-4e9c-b116-17f20ebe2874]], volume 1 of Anthony Wood's "Book of Evidences" cataloguing Christ Church's estates after the Civil War. (Bless you.) <img src="https://iiif.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/iiif/image/df410dfd-6874-4e9c-b116-17f20ebe2874/full/full/0/default.jpg" width="500"> [[Start over|Start]]

Your manuscript is [[MS. Hobhouse 24->https://iiif.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/iiif/viewer/999ae2f7-1bf7-41df-9cba-b1c7929edd05]], welfare campaigner Emily Hobhouse's accounts of her visits to British concentration camps in South Africa during the Boer War. <img src="https://iiif.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/iiif/image/999ae2f7-1bf7-41df-9cba-b1c7929edd05/full/full/0/default.jpg" width="500"> [[Start over|Start]]

Your manuscript is [[MS. Arch. Selden. A. 1->https://iiif.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/iiif/viewer/f02c6f8d-81d3-4cfa-938c-d56e4fbbab77]], the "Codex Mendoza", a pictorial account of Aztec history and rituals with captions in Spanish and Nahuatl. <img src="https://iiif.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/iiif/image/f02c6f8d-81d3-4cfa-938c-d56e4fbbab77/full/full/0/default.jpg" width="500"> [[Start over|Start]]

Your manuscript is [[MS. Canon. Misc. 378->https://iiif.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/iiif/viewer/b36e7feb-3518-4514-af03-959a3460d965]], a collection of illustrated texts on the administration of the Roman Empire. <img src="https://iiif.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/iiif/image/b36e7feb-3518-4514-af03-959a3460d965/full/full/0/default.jpg" width="500"> [[Start over|Start]]

Your manuscript is [[MS. Ashmole 1461->https://iiif.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/iiif/viewer/c8f8eee7-b7f9-451f-a6ef-fd30f8a74e6e]], "Tradescant's Orchard", a set of watercolours of orchard fruits arranged in ripening order. <img src="https://iiif.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/iiif/image/c8f8eee7-b7f9-451f-a6ef-fd30f8a74e6e/full/full/0/default.jpg" width="500"> [[Start over|Start]]

Here is [[Somerville College SC/LY/SP/ABE/424->https://iiif.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/iiif/viewer/d96f8150-b9f3-4578-b4f7-f672967fc4a0]], "Mrs. Roliston's Travelling Adventures", a graphic novel made in 1848 by the teenage Amelia B. Edwards. <img src="https://iiif.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/iiif/image/d96f8150-b9f3-4578-b4f7-f672967fc4a0/full/full/0/default.jpg" width="500"> [[Start over|Start]]

Your manuscript is [[MS. Bodl. 264->https://iiif.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/iiif/viewer/75255aa1-96e2-4119-ae89-6c8449099e5c]], a 14th-century Flemish manuscript of the *Romance of Alexander*. <img src="https://iiif.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/iiif/image/75255aa1-96e2-4119-ae89-6c8449099e5c/full/full/0/default.jpg" width="500"> [[Start over|Start]]