Sunday 25 March 2012

Notes in the Margin: Monks

One of the important jobs that monks performed was making copies of manuscripts, often the Bible. A list has been complied of 'extra notes' that monks wrote in the margins as they were copying... as you can see they were mainly complaints!

Original article at: http://www.brainpickings.org/index.php/2012/03/21/monk-complaints-manuscripts/

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