Vergil's Aenead

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Decorated Initial

Here is a much more typical manuscript book, from around the time of Gutenberg's invention. It consists of plain lines of text in a hand which is of the type that served as model for the development of Roman letter forms.

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Doodles

Virgil's Aenead was one of the textbooks for centuries. Lehigh's copy was closely studied by a 15th century student.

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Doodles

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