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A little whimsy should be allowed (media.piefed.world)

submitted 1 week ago by The_Picard_Maneuver@piefed.world to c/funny@sh.itjust.works

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[–] MoonMelon@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 week ago

The marginalia of medieval manuscripts are often pretty wild. Just my personal theory, but I always thought it seemed like one of the places where the artists could inject a little of their own ideas, elaborating on the subject or drawing parallels, using symbolism, maybe little in-jokes for the client (hours books were made for one person), etc. Sort of like the extra panel of an xkcd comic.