Fourteenth century

Bianca disapproved of Bonnie’s VERY plunging neck line.

Bianca disapproved of Bonnie's VERY plunging neck line.
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From
The Smithfield Decretals
Image from
British Library, Royal MS 10 E IV

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 13 December 2014: the original tweet.

Here endeth this leaf of the Commonplace Book, which ſheweth The Smithfield Decretals, 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 10 E IV. Copied into this book the thirteenth day of December, 2014. Finis.

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The Smithfield Decretals.
British Library, Royal MS 10 E IV.

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