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This Missal (Texts for the Mass), written in Gothic textualis script, contains a few large red and blue initials with penwork, and a full-page miniature of the Crucifixion with the Virgin Mary below on the left and John the Evangelist on the right. Written in northern Italy, between 1375 and 1425; Crucifixion miniature possibly added in southern Germany in the second half of the 15th century. The binding is very early; it may even be original (UPenn Ms. Codex 2053)

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When people believe bodies are “sacred vessels” it can send them down a sort of body fascism. Thinking there’s a right or wrong way to have you body, wanting to control others (and their own in extreme ways), & discriminating because there’s this association with believing something is sacred and brain-rotted purity culture. The body gets turned into an icon of worship and then something akin to religious psychosis has people destroying themselves without realising or policing others.