welshpixie , to random
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Did a thing ^.^

21 x 19.5 cm.

£35 GBP if you want it, includes worldwide shipping 📦

Angled view showing the gold brightly catching the light.
Close up showing the detail; there are small gold dots in the decorative borders between the curling leaves that catch the light when the paper is tilted, and some gold spots on the first decorative Y.

Calligraphied in brown ink insular script with a fancy bigger 'Y', "You are standing in an open filed west of a white house. There is a small mailbox here. Opening the small mailbox reveals a leaflet. 'Welcome to Zork!' " It's framed on the left, top, and bottom with borders of Celtic knotwork and swirling leaves, in brown, blue, green, and purple, with gold lines and gold highlights.
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    :D

    Blue ink and bronze watercolour with black line art on Hahnemuhle hot press watercolour paper.

    Measures 15.5 x 10.5 cm :)

    £20 GBP, postage is s £2 UK, £3 EUR and £4 elsewhere. DM if you want it!

    My hand holding the piece of paper up against a white wall; blue-bronze shimmery ink inside an ornate letter 'C' surrounded by vines and flowers, then the letters 'um' written simply in black ink to the side, spelling 'cum', with an ornate decorative border at the top and bottom.
    Angled view showing the bronze paint catching the light.
    Angled view from another direction showing the bronze looking almost silvery as it catches the light

    MerlyBlack , to random French
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    Hello Mastodon,
    I'm done with the big bestiary! Here are some pictures for you. I hope you like it.
    (Sorry, it is sold!)

    Full view of the illuminated bestiary. It is made of blue and red vignettes contained in a golden grid. Each vignette shows a fantastic beast.
    Close up picture of the illuminated bestiary. You can see blue and red vignettes, with fantastic beasts inside. The central vignette shows a griffon on a black and gold background (a beast with an eagle head, a lion body and dragon wings). They are all contained in a golden grid.

    Her_Doing , to random
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    From @joannechocolat 's daily post on Twitter:

    was a 13th-century illuminator. Nothing is known about her life, but she is noted for a tiny self-portrait in a psalter of c. 1200, in which she depicts herself as swinging from the tail of a letter Q., with her name inscribed over her head."

    I think most of Joanne's subjects would enjoy & find like-minded friends here, but perhaps esp Claricia. 😊

    An enlarged view of illuminated (or illustrated) text from a psalter. The first letter of the text is a large and ornate 'Q' and amidst the Latin text surrounding is a tiny woman holding on to it and swinging her legs out, almost as if on a trapeze, or sitting on a swing that isn't there. In the narrow space between the Q & her shoulders is her name, in very small letters. (Additional info from Wikipedia: A psalter is a volume containing the Book of Psalms, often with other devotional material bound in as well, such as a liturgical calendar and litany of the Saints. Until the emergence of the book of hours in the Late Middle Ages, psalters were the books most widely owned by wealthy lay persons. They were commonly used for learning to read. Many Psalters were richly illuminated, and they include some of the most spectacular surviving examples of medieval book art.)
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