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Beauty behind bars

Beauty behind bars

Ovide, Héroïdes, traduction d’Octavien de Saint-Gelais Source: gallica.bnf.fr Bibliothèque nationale de France. Département des Manuscrits. Français 875, fol. 78r.

I am Legion

I am Legion

Evangeliar Ottos III Source: München, Bayerische Staatsbibliothek München, Bayerische Staatsbibliothek – Clm 4453, fol. 29r.

Houghton Library, MS Typ 443, fol. 114r

Suspended Letters

This margin is decorated with letters that appear to be suspended from chains. Amazing detail from the Emerson White Book of Hours. …