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posted by Roy Schestowitz on May 12, 2026

Mediaeval Marionettes [From an illustration in a twelfth-century manuscript in the Strassbourg library]

Mediaeval Marionettes [From an illustration in a twelfth-century manuscript in the Strassbourg library]

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