All right, I heart money too, but I don’t go around drawing all over my codices to express my
All right, I heart money too, but I don’t go around drawing all over my codices to express my love. For an illustration of avarice, that moneybag sure is shaded with tender care! These marginalia from Ms. Codex 198 fols. 48r, 56r, and 62r are three of many other charming doodles present alongside a prose version of the Speculum vitae; here is a worm-snake for you to get a better sense of the layout of the page.Manuscript description and digital images can be found here on the Penn Libraries website. -- source link
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