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Bois Protat

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Original – The Bois Protat (c. 1370–1380), the oldest surviving European woodcut, engraved on both sides. The recto of the block (left), of which a quarter has survived, features a scene from Christ's crucifixion. A Roman centurion speaks via a phylactery, a mediaeval precursor to the speech balloon.

Reason

Of historic intereest as the oldest surviving European wooblock, and for featuring an early example of a phylactery, or speech scroll, a method of depicting speech that presages the word balloon. I juxtaposed the recto of the block (both sides were engraved) with an impression from the early 20th century.

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Bois Protat

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Creator

Curly Turkey

• Support as nominator --Curly Turkey (gobble) 10:35, 12 March 2014 (UTC)