“This is sad! O little book! A day will come in truth when someone over your page will say, ‘The hand that wrote it is no more.’”
The more things change, the more they stay the same.
“I am very cold”
“The parchment is very hairy.”
“Oh, my hand.”
—Notes from medieval monks and scribes in the margins of their work
Our latest issue “Means of Communication” is now online. Take a break from the scriptorium to check it out!
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