The history of bookmaking hasn’t been without its challenges, but never was its craft as painstaking as during the era of illuminated manuscripts. Joining the ranks of history’s most appalling and amusing complaints ... is an absolute treat for lovers of marginalia — a collection of complaints monks scribbled in the pages of illuminated manuscripts. More »
Taunted by Art Garfunkel's reading list, I decided to keep my own. Then I read Nick Hornby's The Polysyllabic Spree.
2012-07-16
Oh, My Hand: Complaints Medieval Monks Scribbled in the Margins of Illuminated Manuscripts
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