03-12-2025, 12:16 AM
While I personally favour the idea that that MS is largely a fair copy of an earlier draft, this is just my modern feeling. It would be good to have some indications from known historical examples, if there are any.
Has this been studied? Has anything ever been published about it?
Undoutebdly, manuscripts copied in scriptoria would have been penned directly on parchment, but these were copies anyway, so should not be representative examples.
How about a 'life's work' like the Liber Floridus of Lambert de St.Omer or other autographs? I'm not looking for guesses but for historical information.
Has this been studied? Has anything ever been published about it?
Undoutebdly, manuscripts copied in scriptoria would have been penned directly on parchment, but these were copies anyway, so should not be representative examples.
How about a 'life's work' like the Liber Floridus of Lambert de St.Omer or other autographs? I'm not looking for guesses but for historical information.