Unfinished business: this manuscript was intended to have illuminated initials, but for some reason
Unfinished business: this manuscript was intended to have illuminated initials, but for some reason they were never completed, which gives us an unusual opportunity to see an earlier stage in the process, preparatory sketches which would have eventually been covered over.Boccaccio, Giovanni, 1313-1375. De mulieribus claris : manuscript, [ca. 1425]MS Richardson 41Houghton Library, Harvard University -- source link
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