{"id":995,"date":"2012-10-05T11:34:45","date_gmt":"2012-10-05T11:34:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/labs.stefanschleifer.com\/codex\/?p=995"},"modified":"2013-03-28T16:26:06","modified_gmt":"2013-03-28T16:26:06","slug":"scribes-and-the-remaking-of-books-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/everycodextellsastory.eu\/?p=995","title":{"rendered":"Scribes and the (re)making of books (1)"},"content":{"rendered":"

In Bodley 264, there is a fascinating example of how scribes (?<\/a>) could interact with the material they were copying, showing us their thought processes at work. The scribe (or the new owner of the original manuscript from Tournai) believed that there was a gap in the French poem, because an episode that he knew from the story of Alexander the Great wasn\u2019t included in it.\u00a0 So the English poem, which recounts the story of Alexander\u2019s exchange of letters with King Dindimus was added to the manuscript to fill the perceived lacuna.<\/p>\n

By comparing all the surviving copies of the Roman d\u2019Alexandre<\/em>, we now know that the French poem never contained this episode in the first place.\u00a0 It was nevertheless important for the scribe or the new owner of Bodley 264 that it should be as complete as possible in its account of the great King.<\/p>\n

\"Oxford,<\/a>

The scribe directs the reader how to read…<\/p><\/div>\n

So how did the scribe join these texts together? \u00a0Click here <\/a>to find out.<\/p>\n

Click for more on: scribes <\/a>\u2022\u00a0the making of books<\/a><\/p>\n

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In Bodley 264, there is a fascinating example of how scribes (?) could interact with the material they were copying, showing us their thought processes at work. The scribe (or the new owner of the original manuscript from Tournai) believed … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/everycodextellsastory.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/995"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/everycodextellsastory.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/everycodextellsastory.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everycodextellsastory.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everycodextellsastory.eu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=995"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/everycodextellsastory.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/995\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":997,"href":"https:\/\/everycodextellsastory.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/995\/revisions\/997"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/everycodextellsastory.eu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=995"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everycodextellsastory.eu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=995"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everycodextellsastory.eu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=995"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}