A reader who added titles (BNF fr. 837)

Textual boundary with explicit and titulus
Paris, BNF, fr. 837 (pre 1300), f. 27r
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The original scribe of BNF, fr. 837 did not give the texts titles appearing at the beginning. Instead, he chose to name the texts in the explicits, at the end of each text.

A later reader decided that there should be titles, and wrote them in for each text. You can see it is written in a different hand.

 

Most of the time the titles are the same, but sometimes they are different. One text (ff. 341v-342v) has an original scribal explicit reading ‘de la synagogue’, but an added titulus reading ‘de la desputoison de la sinagogue et de sainte Eglise’.

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