[Scriptoris] Fw: [Scribes] Correction from Marc Drogin on TI Interview

[Hillary Greenslade]

Probably worth forwarding the below to your kingdom scribal lists, 
so you can make appropriate corrections to your TI issue when it arrives.  

Cheers, Hillary


----- Forwarded Message ----
From: Dori Andrepont <dori.andrepont at gmail.com>
To: scribes at antir.sca.org
Sent: Tue, July 27, 2010 11:55:53 AM
Subject: [Scribes] Correction from Marc Drogin on TI Interview

Tittivilus Strikes Again

All scribes of mediaeval and later days are familiar with Tittivilus, the
Patron Demon of scribes.  He was introduced to the SCA scribes in Marc
Drogin’s “Medieval Calligraphy” thirty years ago.  Tittivilus apparently
didn’t like the exposure.  The devil responsible for scribal errors and all
things errata had to wait three decades to get his revenge against Drogin
and the SCA... and finally tripped him up, appropriately,  in the current
issue of “Tournaments Illuminated.”

Marc was interviewed on subjects scribal and was discussing the Gregorius
Bock [1510-1617] manuscript because he had discovered within it “...the only
known example of the procedure of strokes in the history of writing.”  Marc
realized he should correctly have said

    “the only known mediaeval example of the procedure
      of strokes in the entire history of writing.”


He sent in the correction.  It was prepared for insertion... and then
Tittivilus made off with it.

A paragraph later Marc had invited SCA scribes to view the mediaeval ductus
page by giving readers the link to the web-page at the Yale University
Beinecke Rare Book Library website.  It was the URL Marc saw at the site.
Only later did he discover that the page could not be reached via that URL
but only through the University/Library digital library website.  Marc
quickly spelled out the correct means of direct access to the mediaeval
page:

      “go to  *http://beinecke.library.yale.edu/digitallibrary
*        type in ms. 439 and then look at Image 1002844 [the
        first double-page image].”


He submitted it, the correction was scheduled to made... and Tittivilus made
off with it.

As mentioned, both corrections disappeared after having editorial approval
and being scheduled and the interview ran without them.  Marc looked
foolish, and Tittivilus had his revenge.

The moral to scribes and particularly to editors:  Tittivilus is still
there.  Watch yourself at all times, particularly if you hear laughter and
there’s no one there.

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