The noses and fingers of medieval manuscripts
One of the manuscripts I looked at this month in Oxford (Magdalen Lat 36, 13th c. English chronicle) had these very nice marginal scribblings that I thought would look nice in a post. They all point to a passage in the text that their author(s) considered noteworthy. The "ha ha" in the first image was jotted down by no-one other than John Foxe, the famo…
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