Fourteenth century

Bertram, the Broccoli Knight.

Bertram, the Broccoli Knight.
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From
The Taymouth Hours
Image from
British Library, Yates Thompson MS 13

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 15 January 2015: the original tweet.

Here endeth this leaf of the Commonplace Book, which ſheweth The Taymouth Hours, the work of its first makers and not of this preſs; only the caption is the Senſeſhaper’s. The image is from British Library, Yates Thompson MS 13. Copied into this book the fifteenth day of January, 2015. Finis.

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The Taymouth Hours.
British Library, Yates Thompson MS 13.

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