The British Library blog has a number of images of medieval scribes at work, with some commentary explaining the tools they used and other aspects of what is depicted. While the development of the writing desk does seem to represent a difference between them and their more ancient predecessors, there are still aspects of their activity which are closer to what early copyists of texts such as those in the Bible would have done, than to what we are familiar with today. Click through to explore the post.
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