Funny Ms corrections-was Re: [Scriptoris] Charter Request from Crown

[Jocelyn Hinkle]

Actually may all time favorite margine note was by an Irish monk. Translated it reads
"May God increase sense for those who desire to write."

Sortof says it all after hours copying script. 

M. Ari
Atenveldt

----- Original Message -----
From: "Elaine Crittenden" <letebts at earthlink.net>
To: Chiara <chiara at io.com>, scriptoris at ansteorra.org
Subject: Funny  Ms corrections-was Re: [Scriptoris] Charter Request from Crown
Date: Fri, 11 Feb 2005 16:20:43 -0600

> 
> The "glossing" stuff is all over the place! I am sure you'll find it in no
> time.
> 
> I have even seen manuscript pages where "workers" were hoisting a couple of
> words from the scene at the page's bottom margin up to the area where the
> scribe absently left them out. There was another "worker" halfway up the
> page motioning to the area where the "hoisted" letters were to finally be
> inserted. There are all sorts of versions of that amusing little goodie
> throughout the books on illumination, too.
> 
> (Had some mischevious illuminer had been hitting the sacramental wine on the
> sly?)
> 
> Some of that drollery stuff can have an exhausted scribe laughing
> hysterically while rolling under the light table. I have! ;-D
> 
> Lete
> 
> ----------
> > From: "Chiara" <chiara at io.com>
> > To: "Scribes within Ansteorra - SCA, Inc." <scriptoris at ansteorra.org>
> > Subject: Re: [Scriptoris] Charter Request from Crown
> > Date: Fri THFeb 11,2005,12:06 AM
> >
> 
> > Oh, that is a great idea Lete!
> >
> > How about it Etienne, do you think they would go for that?
> >
> > One of the books I have talks about this being done in period, the writing
> > along the margins, between the lines, etc. Great book ... wish I could
> > locate it right now to quote it directly.
> > (snip)
> > «·.·*¨`·? Chiara ?·´¨*·.·»
> > (snip)
> 
> 
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Elaine Crittenden" <letebts at earthlink.net>
> > To: "Scribes within Ansteorra - SCA, Inc." <scriptoris at ansteorra.org>;
> > "Scribes within Ansteorra - SCA, Inc." <scriptoris at ansteorra.org>
> > Sent: Thursday, February 10, 2005 8:44 PM
> > Subject: Re: [Scriptoris] Charter Request from Crown
> >
> >
> (snip)
> > : What about using a Period technique called "glossing" in which scribes and
> > : scholars wrote their own notes or explanations in between the lines of the
> > : selected text?
> > :
> (snip)
> > : Lete Bts. (still jes' tryin' ta be he'pful...)
> > :
> > :
> > :
> 
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