Marginalia

Medieval illustrators (not to exclude clerks, scribes and anyone who had access to paper and had to do a lot of writing and got very bored) put a lot of stuff in the marginalia of their works.

For example, embellishing the capital letters: 

 

Often, it was simply to amuse themselves and offer little jokes for the person receiving it.

 

.......... Ruprecht (For Pete's sake, STOP waving that duck around ...)

Happy 234th and God Bless America

From the Declaration Of Independence:

"We, therefore, the representatives of the United States of America, in General Congress, assembled, appealing to the Supreme Judge of the world for the rectitude of our intentions, do, in the name, and by the authority of the good people of these colonies, solemnly publish and declare, that these united colonies are, and of right ought to be free and independent states ..."

Happy 234th ... and God Bless America .....

...................... Ruprecht ( STOP )