Fourteenth century

Just a woman bathing in a tower.

Just a woman bathing in a tower.
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From
The Romance of Alexander
Image from
Bodleian Library, MS. Bodl. 264

Source: The internet is a place of theft. And I was a notorious thief here. Shame on me, but I will make amends if I ever have EEBO access again. But life out here is hard for the unaffiliated academic.

First posted on Twitter on 24 November 2014: the original tweet.

Here endeth this leaf of the Commonplace Book, which ſheweth The Romance of Alexander, the work of its first makers and not of this preſs; only the caption is the Senſeſhaper’s. The image is from Bodleian Library, MS. Bodl. 264. Copied into this book the twenty-fourth day of November, 2014. Finis.

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The Romance of Alexander.
Bodleian Library, MS. Bodl. 264.

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