hand-gewrit

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hand-gewrit, n.n: what is written by the hand, a deed, contract. (HOND-yeh-WRIT / ˈhand-jɛ-ˌwrɪt)

Inside an initial D in a medieval manuscript, a monk writes on a piece of parchment.
Rufillus’s self portrait in Ambrose’s Hexaemeron; Germany (Weissenau), late 12th century; Amiens, Bibliothèque municipale, Lescalopier 30, f. 29v. [initiale.irht.cnrs.fr]

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