Bible, c.1260. From a private collection. Photographs © Dianne Tillotson. |
OK, so I cheated. The samples here are from a different part of the page to the one we were looking at. If you can manage them, you might try a complete transcript of the section on the text page, and compare it against ours. I am going to have to look at something else now to give my eyeballs a rest. |
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