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marginalia

This incunabulum of the Historia Naturalis, printed by Andreas Portilia in 1481, has the best marginalia I’ve seen, in cancelleresca:

#https://www.digitale-sammlungen.de/en/view/bsb00051661?page=38%2C39

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Notice the e in Homerus with the ductus like the Luxeuil, the capital P starting as an L.

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