Wednesday, September 30, 2026

 

A Misattribution

Marc Drogin, Medieval Calligraphy: Its History and Technique (1980; rpt. New York: Dover Publications, Inc., 1989), p. 3:
Not Horace, but Juvenal (7.51-52: tenet insanabile multos / scribendi cacoethes). Drogin also misspelled insanabile as insanibile.

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# posted by Michael Gilleland @ 6:00 AM


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