This'll start looking cool eventually

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Manuscript text pages with initial S in blue with red penwork decoration

Manuscript text pages with initial B in blue with red penwork decoration

King Ethelbert of Kent, first of the English kings to convert to Christianity, is celebrated variously today and tomorrow. Here are the prologue and opening of his Life by Giraldus Cambrensis in Cambridge, Trinity College, MS B.11.16, ff. 77v-78r and 78v-79r. 🧵 #medievalsky #gothicscript

Hast thou seen this squidde
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