Caroline · @ontheriverrede
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Four of the deadliest snails in medieval art:

1) Battle in the Margins, from the Gorleston Psalter, England (Suffolk), c. 1310-1324.
2) Angers - BM - SA 3390 f.089, 1493.
3) Brunetto Latini's Li Livres dou Tresor, France (Picardy), c. 1315-1325
4) Smithfield Decretals, southern France with marginal scenes added in England (London), (c. 1300-40).

For more information: blogs.bl.uk/digitisedmanuscrip

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