“I am very cold”
“The parchment is very hairy.”
“Oh, my hand.”
—Notes from medieval monks and scribes in the margins of their work
Our latest issue “Means of Communication” is now online. Take a break from the scriptorium to check it out!
This is awesome.
“Now I’ve written the whole thing: for Christ’s sake, give me a drink.”
Some of these are really moving, it’s easy to forget that the people transcribing these works weren’t just monk-shaped automata slaving away tirelessly on some different planet. But some of them are also hilarious.
“the hand that wrote it is no more”
IT CEASED TO BE
IT EXPIRED AND LEFT TO SEE ITS MAKER
THIS IS AN EX-HANDYou’re officially my favorite. Okay.
These are awesome. Some are sweet, others hilarious. “For Christ’s sake give me a drink.”
(via heavvymetalqueen)
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