Yet, even at their peak, female scribes remained a small fraction of the overall manuscript production. The study estimates that women copied just over 1% of medieval manuscripts, though many more ...

The scribe has written the Latin words "Probatio Penn[a]e," which means "pen test." Sometimes, though, the scribes were a little bit bolder and wrote more emotively about their work.

Experts estimate medieval scribes produced over 10 million manuscripts between 400-1500 CE, each one painstakingly copied, illustrated, and bound by hand.

Art History Women Played a Pivotal Role as Scribes of Medieval Manuscripts, Research Reveals. More than 110,000 manuscripts were made by women, a far greater number than previously thought.

The researchers analyzed colophons — short mentions found in Medieval manuscripts that contained information about the scribes, commissioners, and when they were produced — written between the ...

The two pages are from a 13th century copy of the “Suite Vulgate du Merlin.” The manuscript, handwritten by a medieval scribe in Old French, served as the sequel to the legend of King Arthur.

Medieval scribes filled volumes called bestiaries with illustrations and descriptions of fantastic creatures. The manuscripts containing representations of these animals also depended on a ...

The manuscript, handwritten by a medieval scribe in Old French, served as the sequel to the legend of King Arthur. There are just over three dozen surviving copies of the sequel today.