/lit/ - Literature

>>10906505
>“I am very cold.”
lol

I love the one about Summa Theologica, how it was difficult and tedious for the scribe, deo gratias, deo gratias, and again, deo gratias

Printing was worth inventing just to avoid this bullshit

>>10906515
please, imagine having to hand set each individual letter. and you cant even add a snide remark to let the world know you existed

>While many scribes had anxieties about working with such precious materials, others directed their complaints to the content of the work itself: “Whoever translated these Gospels did a very poor job!”

>/lit/fags shitting on translations a thousand years ago

>>10906505
>"This is sad! O little book! A day will come in truth when someone over your page will say, "The hand that wrote it is no more.""

>>10906505
>>“Thank God, it will soon be dark.”
Just found the title for my new doom-folk album.

>>10906773
delete this

>>10906505
>It's a /lit/ doesn't understand what life was life was like for bookfags
You would have to spend hours upon hours writing into a pieces upon pieces of parchment - pieces where if you made a single mistake you would have to scrap the whole page - trying to shit out a book you've made dozens of times until your hands cramp.

>>10906773
>Donald Trump will never come out with a Doom folk album
Why even live?

monks are underrated

>>10906505
>>10906726
Where did you get this marginalia? I would like to read more.

First know sentence written down in dutch was a marginalia as well.

>Hebban olla uogala nestas hagunnan hinase hi(c) (a)nda thu uuat unbidan uue nu

translation: Alle vogels zijn nesten begonnen, behalve ik en jij. Waar wachten wij nu op?

or in english : All the birds have started building their nest except for you and me. What are we waiting for?

You've got to wonder, did monks ever get the temptation to fuck with the text? I imagine if you're sitting down, scribbling down the only copy of some mind-numbing book on kitchen etiquette or something, if you wouldn't feel like throwing in random "FATHER GIOVANNI IS A FOOL" in the middle of a paragraph or something.

Try handrighting for 8hours a day beautifully with no mistakes in a dim candle light.
Yea its hard work that is why it was don almost exclusively by monk. As a tribute to God in a way.

>>10909142
Im sure they did, but controlling themselves is part of being a monk.
And am sure the punishment for something like that is saver and he would have to scribe the gospel for penance.

>>10909142
>proceeds from the Father
>AND THE SON LOL

>>10909135
dat feel

>>10909177
D E L E T

>>10909142
A lot of them didn't even know how to read properly, so that wasn't possible. They were just copying characters one after another, one at a time, from one page to another. If they could read they'd probably feel more inclined to correct an error they saw before they got any inclination to start fucking with it.

>>10909090

>>10909739
>This is so sad! O little book! A day will come in truth when someone over your page will say, "The hand that wrote it is no more."
Why did OP leave out the best (worst) one?

>>10909779
"Deliver me from writing" is the best one, though.

>>10909142
I took a class on the Irish transmission of classical texts last year, and recall one monk who called himself 'Virgil the Grammarian' who wrote texts on Latin grammar that are so odd they appear to be elaborate parodies of monastic tradition.

He would write something about the form of Latin grammar and then cite his source by saying 'Aeneas told me this' or say 'there are actually 12 kinds of Latin, but people these days only use one of them.' So I think there were definitely some early academic pranksters, considering scholars who look at this particular monk's work don't have much of a consensus on what to take seriously.

>>10909890

Fascinating

>>10909890
>>10909982

>shitposting in 9th century AD
What a legend

*destroys all traces of paganism*
Nothing personal, kiddo.

>>10906505
thank god for these men of men.

>>10910682
>implying people have ever changed