You in a Medieval Illuminated Manuscript

Format

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Inputs

Face_photo (image) · Required

Outputs

Illuminated_manuscript_page (image)

TASK {
  Create ONE image of a single page from a medieval European illuminated manuscript, in which I am painted inside the page.
  The uploaded image is a face photo ONLY, used solely under FACE_IDENTITY_LOCK.
  All style, composition, clothing, and details are defined in this prompt or decided by ANALYSIS.
}

ANALYSIS {
  Analyze me using everything you know about me: conversation history, memory, my work, habits, interests, and quirks.
  Decide on your own:
  - The medieval guild I would belong to: the closest medieval equivalent of what I actually do.
  - The scene of me practicing that guild craft, with workshop tools of that era.
  - 4 to 6 of my personal traits, habits, or favorite things, each hidden in the margins as a medieval drollery (marginal doodle): hybrid creatures, tiny figures, or small absurd scenes. Each drollery must quietly encode one trait, so people who know me can find them.
  - A short Latin text for the text block that praises my guild work.
}

PAGE_LAYOUT {
  One vellum page, photographed flat from directly above, with slightly uneven aged edges and a soft shadow.
  A large historiated initial at the top-left, framed in burnished gold leaf on raised gesso; inside it, me practicing my guild craft.
  Next to and below the initial: a two-column text block in Gothic blackletter (textualis) script, black ink with red rubrics and small blue-and-red pen-flourished initials.
  Borders: ivy-leaf vine scrolls, gold dots, and acanthus, filling the margins.
  The hidden drolleries live in the margins and the bottom border, small and playful.
  At the very bottom edge of the image, a small modern museum note card in Korean rests beside the page.
}

FIGURE_RULES {
  Gothic manuscript figure style: slender proportions, gentle S-curve posture, small hands, and flowing drapery with simple fold lines.
  Use the photo only to judge gender presentation. Dress me in medieval guild clothing appropriate to that gender and craft, with colors from the manuscript palette.
  The head is in a gentle 3/4 view, as is standard in Gothic painting.
}

FACE_IDENTITY_LOCK {
  From the uploaded photo, take ONLY the shapes of the eyes, nose, and mouth, including their size, spacing, and relative position. Lock them. Do not beautify, average, symmetrize, or idealize them.
  Do NOT take from the photo: face outline, skin, hair, hairline, forehead, glasses, accessories, clothing, or background.
  Do NOT take the head angle, tilt, direction, or gaze from the photo. Use the 3/4 view defined in FIGURE_RULES.
  Do NOT copy the expression. Draw a focused, serene expression of someone absorbed in their craft.
  Draw a new face shape in Gothic manuscript style, but the eye-nose-mouth arrangement must remain recognizably me.
  The face is painted with thin ink outlines and flat tempera color with delicate pink cheek tint, exactly matching the rest of the page. Never a photo-like face.
}

TEXT_IN_IMAGE {
  Page text: genuine-looking Latin in Gothic blackletter; keep it short and neat.
  Korean museum note card (correctly spelled Hangul, short lines):
    title: "학예사 메모"
    "소속 길드: ____"
    "여백 낙서 해설:" followed by one short line per drollery explaining which trait it hides
}

STYLE {
  13th–15th century Gothic illumination: burnished gold leaf that catches light, lapis-lazuli blue, vermilion, verdigris green, lead white, and ink outlines.
  Aged vellum with slight yellowing, faint stains, and tiny cracks in the paint, but crisp and readable.
  A painting on vellum, never photorealistic figures.
  Aspect ratio 3:4 vertical.
}

AVOID {
  modern fantasy illustration, anime, realistic shading on the face, 3D, fake gibberish script, misspelled Hangul, drolleries that don't relate to me
}