Invisible Scribes of Medieval Literature Revealed

Past Horizons ^ | Thursday, October 13, 2011 | unattributed

[SunkenCiv]

Medieval scribe

Portrait of Chaucer from Hoccleve's Regement (or Regiment) of Princes. [licensed for reuse under Creative Commons Licence.]

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DNA Used In Attempt To Solve Christian Mystery
The Guardian (UK) | 7-21-2003 | Tim Radford
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[cripplecreek]

The printing press is definitely one of mankind’s greatest inventions.

[SunkenCiv]

I wholeheartedly agree.

OTOH, the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution of the United States were both first published in longhand. :’)

[cripplecreek]

OTOH, the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution of the United States were both first published in longhand. :’)

Problem with the font Hancock?

[SunkenCiv]

I’m just glad no one ever figured out the text is in a combination of Papyrus and Comic Sans MS. ;’)

[Winstons Julia]

And now internet.

When you think about it The Canterbury Tales isn’t really THAT much different from.

http://www.peopleofwalmart.com/

[SunkenCiv]

• 'Late Medieval English Scribes' was developed by The Centre for Medieval Studies at the University of York and the University of Oxford with technical development provided by The Humanities Research Institute, University of Sheffield. The project was funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council

[roamer_1]

The printing press is definitely one of mankind’s greatest inventions.

Yup... right under beer, tobacco, cheese, and sausage (the four food groups)...

[Steve Van Doorn]

beer started civilization the rest of those items did nothing other then fill our bellies.

[seowulf]

The printing press is definitely one of mankind’s greatest inventions.

Yes, but there's nothing quite like a book written on vellum using blood and horse urine ink.

[afraidfortherepublic]

And there is nothing like hand lettered calligraphy. It’s relaxing and meditative for the person doing it too.

[blam]

"Yes, but there's nothing quite like a book written on vellum using blood and horse urine ink.

I wonder how much a horse piss collector was paid in those days. I also wonder what his wife told her friends that he did for a living.

[seowulf]

And there is nothing like hand lettered calligraphy. It’s relaxing and meditative for the person doing it too.

A hand hand lettered, calligraphy book is also relaxing and meditative for the reader as well.

It is art on several levels: what the words say, how the words look, and how the book feels.

It's just not the same on a Kindle.

[seowulf]

I wonder how much a horse piss collector was paid in those days. I also wonder what his wife told her friends that he did for a living.

I'm going to guess he didn't have to be paid and just did it for his general amusement, and since the horse piss probably smelled better than his wife, she told her friends he was a perfumer.

[Arrowhead1952]

Our adult Bible study group is studying a series "How we got our Bible". The scribes of past were assigned to write each line with the exact same number of characters and words. The same went for columns and pages.

After the words were written, a second, third, fourth and fifth scribe would check the work and each would write the exact number of words on the bottom of the page. The center word and character would be marked on each page as well.

The accuracy of the Bible had been questioned for years, until the discovery of The Dead Sea Scrolls. The oldest manuscripts were identical to those scrolls.

[vladimir998]

That’s for the Old Testament. Things were a bit looser in the Middle Ages otherwise.

[Arrowhead1952]

Yes it is. I should have added that. Most of Jeremiah was found in the Dead Sea Scrolls.

[roamer_1]

beer started civilization the rest of those items did nothing other then fill our bellies.

It was meant to be facetious. Sorry it hit you otherwise.