One thousand years of 😳

From an early ninth-century manuscript (Basel, Universitätsbiblitohek, N I 1:3c, fol. 2r).

@litteracarolina That looks like a very cleanly written Insular Miniscule
@26aafa19 It is!
@litteracarolina Very different than the MSS that I usually have to deal with 🤣
@litteracarolina enjoying that this style would not be out of place today at all.
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The more of these I see, the more I look back at those monks and scribes, and think how could you not bring cheer to the day like this.
@litteracarolina emoji’s have a longer history than previously thought.
@litteracarolina That’d be a brilliant tattoo.
@litteracarolina they didn't have self-adhesive googly eyes yet then.
@litteracarolina That is… delightful.
@litteracarolina People don't change😏
@litteracarolina those poor monks who had to duplicate books by feather & ink & skilled hand, had to have a little fun, too!