martyr-eater:Psalter and Rosary of the Virgin (Egerton 1821, ff. 1v-2), c. 1480 - c. 1490.The most r
martyr-eater:Psalter and Rosary of the Virgin (Egerton 1821, ff. 1v-2), c. 1480 - c. 1490.The most remarkable example of a book of devotion that may show signs of having received that devotion in a direct physical form is Egerton 1821, an English product of around 1490. It begins with three pages, each painted black, on which large drops of blood trickle down. The third page has been thoroughly worn, which may be the result of kissing; part of it also have been rubbed and smudged rather than merely kissed. (source)The prefatory pages of Egerton 1821 have been seemingly spattered with the blood of Christ: the first three pages are painted entirely black and filled with numerous blood-red drops. The following eight pages are covered with hundreds of tiny crimson wounds superimposed on red vellum back-drops. (source) -- source link
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