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Traces of scribes | Exploring the Medieval Manuscript Book

The video series ‘Exploring the Medieval Manuscript Book’ features book historian Irene O’Daly (Leiden University), introducing a wider audience to unique artefacts that were created with pen and ink in a distant past. In this fourth episode, she discusses the traces that scribes left in their books. Most medieval scribes did their job without revealing their identity. But several of them, reaching the end of the copied text and with a sigh of relief in their heart, signed and dated their work in a colophon. Sometimes they added interesting contextual information or even asked future readers to pray for them. (BPL 67, LTK 219, BPL 2541) Unintentional traces of a scribe can be found when (s)he or a colleague corrected errors made during the writing process. A rare phenomenon occurs when the scribe copied from an exemplar that can be identified. A major continuation error links a written copy (BPL 3469) to its printed exemplar (1498 B 2). Explore these manuscripts (held by Leiden University Libraries) yourself: BPL 67: http://hdl.handle.net/1887.1/item:160... LTK 219: http://hdl.handle.net/1887.1/item:151... BPL 2541: http://hdl.handle.net/1887.1/item:152... BPL 3469: http://hdl.handle.net/1887.1/item:885741 1498 B 2: http://hdl.handle.net/1887.1/item:193... This video is created for ‘The Art of Reading in the Middle Ages’ project which explores how medieval reading culture evolved and became a fundamental aspect of European culture. The project is co-financed by the Connecting Europe Facility of the European Union. Project website: https://www.medieval-reads.eu.