The rabbit that goes through the page
About the work
Imported from the workbook's Full reassessment sheet, revised 7 October 2026 (record ID 49). The assessment below is the workbook's comparative judgment under its stated criteria; source links and limits are retained.
Workbook assessment: Insufficient evidence
Date or witness: c.1320–1330
Region: Southern England, possibly London
Workbook date-sort bounds: 1320 CE to 1330 CE; these bounds are not automatically invention or disappearance dates.
Description
On BL Harley MS 6563 f.33r–v, a rabbit appears to run into a hole on one side of the leaf and emerge from the other: a joke using the physical page.
Evidence of adoption or transmission
A rabbit passing through the physical page is securely documented in Harley 6563.
What remains uncertain
One ingenious layout does not establish historical copying or popular adoption.
Workbook revision note: Reassessed using grassroots criteria