Once Upon a Time, in a Margin Far, Far Away (Mmm… Marginalia #53)

Nothing funny, sacrilegious, or scatological about this one, from Bodleian MS Douce 93:


No scandal, just a pretty little tree-top castle found in the margins of a fifteenth-century Dutch book of hours. The king and queen there in the turret give the whole thing a Mr. Rogers vibe that I just kind of dig. And if you’re wondering, that’s St. George a’dragon-slayin’ there in the historiated initial.

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