First, researchers turned to an existing catalogue of Benedictine colophons, reviewing all 23,774 entries for linguistic ...
A team at the University of Bergen in Norway have determined that a minimum of 1.1% of medieval manuscripts from around 800 ...
The stories are part of a French sequel to Arthurian legend, and its binding was repurposed in the 16th century ...
Cambridge University researchers found a manuscript with rare Arthurian tales bound into a ledger more than 400 years old and ...
A female scribe might use her name or describe herself ... or 1.1 percent of the 10 million manuscripts produced in medieval times. Knowing that only around 75,000 of that 10 million have survived ...
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Women Played a More Important Role in Producing Medieval Manuscripts Than Previously ThoughtNew research suggests that women were the scribes of at least 1.1 percent of manuscripts in the Latin West between 400 and 1500 C.E.
Women worked as scribes in both religious settings and “lay workshops,” according to prior research. “While remarkable examples of Medieval manuscripts penned by women are well known from ...
Fragments of a rare Merlin manuscript from the 1200s discovered and digitised in a ground-breaking three-year project at Cambridge University Library.
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