Thirteenth century

A little ass-play. *I’ll show myself out…*

A little ass-play. *I'll show myself out...*
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From
The Rochester Bestiary
Image from
British Library, Royal MS 12 F XIII, f. 39v

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 20 January 2016: the original tweet.

Here endeth this leaf of the Commonplace Book, which ſheweth The Rochester Bestiary, the work of its first makers and not of this preſs; only the caption is the Senſeſhaper’s. The image is from British Library, Royal MS 12 F XIII, f. 39v. Copied into this book the twentieth day of January, 2016. Finis.

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The Rochester Bestiary.
British Library, Royal MS 12 F XIII, f. 39v.

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