Fine line black outline tattoo of a sitting cat on the top of a foot, near the toes, with a grey cat resting beside it.

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Fine line cat outline on the top of a foot

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A single-line black outline of a seated cat sits on the top of a foot, close to the toes. The linework is thin and unshaded, with the tail curling around the base. The background is a red fabric, and a grey cat's head and ear appear at the right edge.

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Brother Anselm found the grey cat on a February morning, when the ink had frozen in its horn pot and the scriptorium smelled of wet wool. It had chosen the sill above the brazier, where the vellum was pinned to dry, and it did not move when he lifted it. Abbot Gervase had forbidden animals in the cloister, but the cat had already decided the matter, and Anselm found he had no argument left.

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The mice came for the glue and the gall ink. Anselm kept the cat in a basket under his desk and fed it crusts from his own bread, and each night it walked the length of the bench between the open quires without once touching them. It stepped carefully, tail curled round its front paws like a closed bracket, as though it understood that the pages were not its business until someone made them so.

When the abbot came to inspect the Psalter, Anselm had nothing to hide but the warm weight in his lap. Gervase looked at the nibbled corner of a leaf, then at the cat, and said nothing for so long that Anselm began to count the candles on the altar. At last the abbot asked whether the animal might be taught to guard the Gospels as well as the Psalms.

That spring Anselm drew the cat in the margin of the Psalter, head lifted, tail wound round its feet, in a single unbroken line of ink that he did not lift from the page until it was finished. Whatever the mice took afterwards, the cat would still be sitting there in the margin, and when Gervase signed the last leaf he did not ask for it to be rubbed out.

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