POSTCARDS ON PARCHMENT

Medieval prayer books held not only the devotions and meditations of Christianity, but also housed, slipped between pages, sundry no tes, reminders, and ephemera, such as pilgrims' badges, sworn oaths, and small painted images. Many of these last items have been cl assified as manuscript illumination, but Kathryn M. Rudy argues that these pictures should be called, instead, parchment paintings, similar to postcards.