Forskningsdagene, aka Norwegian National Science Week, involves a number of events intended to make research (most often scientific) available to the public and also to create public awareness about research in Norwegian universities and enterprises. In one event in Bergen … Continue reading
An earlier post discussed Malcolm Parkes’s idea of sense transfer units, that is the amount of text a scribe retained in memory when transferring his/her attention from an exemplar (the text to be copied) to the scribe’s own copy (the … Continue reading
References to the price and labour involved in producing early medieval books in Western Europe are hard to come by. However, thanks to Helmut Gneuss’s reconstruction of a scribal comment (aka colophon) now lost (but transcribed by a modern cataloguer … Continue reading
One of the most interesting (admittedly, to me) characteristics of manuscript culture, that is a literate culture distinct from print, is the handwritten transmission of texts, a phenomenon that demands a better understanding of the mechanics of copying. In short, … Continue reading