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This month's Distributed Proofreaders (DP) Blog is a book that was a one of the special projects to celebrate DP's 25th anniversary. "Here foloweth a lytell treatyse of the beaute of women" was published around 1525.

https://blog.pgdp.net/2025/12/01/on-the-beauty-of-women/

The book at PG:

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/77124

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A woodcut "depicts a voluptuous woman wearing nothing but a fancy plumed hat and slippers, playing a lute to a jester sitting at her feet. The Latin inscription in its border, “Peccati forma femina est et mortis condicio,” can be translated roughly as, “Sin and death take the shape of woman.” - https://blog.pgdp.net/2025/12/01/on-the-beauty-of-women/