A New Year’s gift

The book pictured below is smaller than a 3×5 card. It was written in 1606 to promote the author’s skills in miniature writing and mailed to a noble woman in hopes of getting paid or drumming up business.

So apparently the work of writing hasn’t gotten any saner in the last four centuries.

(from Slate)
newyearsbook

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