Neat - medieval manuscript uses visually occluded text as a metaphor for silence:
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A seemingly modern moment of abstraction in a medieval manuscript, representing silence as a yellow rectangle: publicdomainreview.org/collection/y...
“And when he opened the 7th seal, there followed a silence in heaven about the space of half an hour”
(Silos Apocalypse, BL Add MS 11695)
“And when he opened the 7th seal, there followed a silence in heaven about the space of half an hour”
(Silos Apocalypse, BL Add MS 11695)
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