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.
This post was inspired by my granddaughter, who is learning about medieval writing in second grade. When I asked her where medieval monks did their writing, she correctly answered, "In a scriptorium."
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This post was inspired by my granddaughter, who is learning about medieval writing in second grade. When I asked her where medieval monks did their writing, she correctly answered, "In a scriptorium."
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