Fifteenth century

When your dragon interrupts your dinner party to beg for table scraps.

When your dragon interrupts your dinner party to beg for table scraps.
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From
The Talbot Shrewsbury Book
Image from
British Library, Royal MS 15 E VI, f. 6v

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 2 February 2016: the original tweet.

Here endeth this leaf of the Commonplace Book, which ſheweth The Talbot Shrewsbury Book, 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 15 E VI, f. 6v. Copied into this book the ſecond day of February, 2016. Finis.

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The Talbot Shrewsbury Book.
British Library, Royal MS 15 E VI, f. 6v.

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