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“Full-page miniature of Abraham lifting his knife upon Isaac and being stopped by an angel who is pointing to the substitute offering for Isaac, the ram stuck in the bush.”, The Northern French Miscellany, f. 521v by “the Cholet Group, Master of Méliacin group and Master of Honoré groups”, France c. 1277-1286 via The British Library, Public Domain
Detail of “Decorated initial-word panel Divrei (the words of) with partial foliate border inhabited by a dragon, at the beginning of Amos.”, Italy ca. 14th century via The British Library, Public Domain
Historiated and foliate initial B, Cutting from an Antiphoner by Lorenzo Monaco, Don Silvestro dei Gherarducci, and Matteo di Filippo Torelli, Florence, Italy c. 1396 - 1402 via The British Library, Public Domain
Pages from Lady Jane Grey’s Prayer Book, with a message written to Sir John Bridges, Lieutenant of the Tower, by her before her execution.
Forasmutche as you have desired so simple a weman to wrighte in so worthye a booke (good) Mayster Leaftaunte [Lieutenant] therefore I shall as a frende desyre you and as a Christian requer [require] you to call uppon god to encline youre harte to his lawes to quicken you in his waye and not to take the worde of trewethe utterlye oute of youre mouthe howe styll to dye that by deathe you maye purchase eternall life and remembre howe the ende of Mathusael [Methuselah] whoe as we reade in the Scriptures was the longeste lived that was of a manne died at the laste for as the Precher sayethe there is a tyme to be borne and a tyme to dye and the daye of deathe is better than the daye of oure birthe youres as the lorde knoweth as a frende Jane Duddeley’
