Drollery
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drollery-285-9129999
title:
Drollery
text:
A drollerie, often also called a grotesque, is a small decorative image in the margin of an illuminated manuscript, most popular from about 1250 through the 15th century, though found earlier and later. The most common types of drollery images appear as mixed creatures, either between different animals, or between animals and human beings, or even between animals and plants or inorganic things. Examples include cocks with human heads, dogs carrying human masks, archers winding out of a fish's mo
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description:
Decorative image in the margin of an illuminated manuscript
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drollery
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date modified:
2024-04-19T17:48:47Z
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