#medieval scribes

[gwydionmisha]

The Humour of Medieval Scribes - Medievalists.net

Thanks to new research, we are now finding many more examples of medieval scribes' sense of humour, as they wrote jokes, complaints and even

[medievalistsnet]

Who were these people copying manuscripts? The mysteries of medieval scribes - Medievalists.net

Medieval scribes, the producers of the manuscripts that are for us such crucial and fascinating sources, are mostly shrouded in mystery, especially when we travel back further in time.

[chasing-yesterdays]

The evolution of the pilcrow, or “paragraph symbol.”

“[...] [B]y the 12th century, scribes abandoned the K in favor of the C, for capitulum (“little head”) to divide texts into capitula (also known as “chapters”). Like the treble clef, the pilcrow evolved due to the inconsistencies inherent in hand-drawing, and as it became more widely used, the C gained a vertical line (in keeping with the latest rubrication trends) and other, more elaborate embellishments, eventually becoming the character seen at the top of this post.”

-Jimmy Stamp

Source: 1, 2, 3

[kentuckwitch]

[thecastlelibrarian]

Big day for annoying people (me)

Just found this article, and OMG I’m so hyped for more Arthurian lore

Also, bald child Merlin is canon!! Not sure if we already knew this information, but if not shoutout to the authors of the Once & Future duology for calling it lol

[triviaproofing]

#1498: “Punctuation did not come into use until the advent of printing in the fifteenth century. Before that, words written by scribes were runtogetherlikethis.”

False. True.

Actually, the usage of punctuation rose as more copies of the Bible were produced. Irish scribes introduced the practice of adding spaces in the seventh or eighth century. When printing was invented, the practice of punctuation really took off.