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īg, f.n: island. (EE / ˈiːj)

Medieval manuscript image of a haloed man holding a book and sleeping on an island; a ship drops its anchor nearby, a white bird perches on a rock, and an angel comes down from the clouds with a scroll.
The Cloisters Apocalypse; France (Normandy), c. 1330; Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Cloisters Collection, MS 68.174, f. 3r. [metmuseum.org]

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