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This manuscript was made, probably in the 1310s, for someone connected with the church of St Andrew at Gorleston in Norfolk, and hence gets its common name ‘The Gorleston Psalter’. This manuscript is rich in ‘bas-de-page’, literally bottom-of-the-page, illustrations. This image shows one such picture: a fox carries a goose away in its mouth, and the goose says ‘queck’ (quack). The scene is probably from the tale of Reynard the fox. Images in the margins of medieval manuscripts were there to instruct but also to amuse. They often contain visual observations of the times and society.
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