dæges ēage

Posted on June 21, 2016 by Hana Videen

dæges ēage, n.n: daisy; literally, a day’s eye. (“da-yes eh-ah-yeh”)

An allegorical painting of a man putting his heart into a daisy from Petit Livre d’Amour, by Pierre Sala. France, c. 1500. British Library, Stowe MS 955, fol. 6r.

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