Reading Practice

The Pursuit of Natural Knowledge from Manuscript to Print

Scribal Notations and Reader Marks

The spreadsheet below contains transcriptions of every reader mark in a fifteenth- century practical manuscript that I could attribute to a reader or which could be dated definitively. In addition, the spreadsheet contains notes about other reader and scribal additions, like added recipes or indices. I note the location of these marks and indicate whether they were made in the fifteenth (XV), sixteenth (XVI), or seventeenth (XVII) centuries. In total, the spreadsheet contains notes or transcriptions of over 500 separate instances of reader interactions with practical manuscripts.


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Appendix A Appendix B Appendix C
Manuscript Descriptions and Data Scribal Notations and Reader Marks Censorship and Cancellations