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It's a bit like an embroidered sampler: the content is filler, or at least isn't factually significant/important so there probably hasn't been any reason to loo
by theoh 8y ago
It's a bit like an embroidered sampler: the content is filler, or at least isn't factually significant/important so there probably hasn't been any reason to look closely. I'm not sure about this kind of document per se, but in general I think only a small fraction of documents in archives actually get processed in detail (translation, transcribing).
- athenot 8y agoThis was commissioned for an emperor and contains parts of the Liturgy of the Hours: prayers that Catholic religious do throughout the day. But it's not uncommon for lay people to partake in those, either doing the full version or some abridged version. It's not impossible to imagine the emperor wanting his fancy version of this (whether to earnestly pray along or just to appear pious, we can't know).
- theoh 8y agoI think it's safe to assume that the knotted/maze pattern script (for example) was not intended to be consumed as text.