Battle with the #Dragon. Queen Mary Apocalypse, London 1300-1325. BL, Royal MS 19 B XV, fol. 22v.
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Gold leaf glows between inked interlace, where stylized birds and beasts coil into tight medallions. The grid’s precision suggests a cosmology—each circle a world in miniature.
What creature hides in the corner knotwork, half-erased by time?
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