Handwriting expert Kate Gladstone regaled Julia Hanna and me with many amusing stories about errors and doodles in medieval manuscripts last night.
Here are some of the links to the stories and images that Kate shared with us.
https://medievalbooks.nl/2018/10/05/doodles-in-medieval-manuscripts/
https://www.pinterest.ca/barriebrill/scribal-errors/
https://medievalfragments.wordpress.com/2014/06/20/the-beauty-of-mistakes/
Kate is the author of Read Cursive Fast. To order her book:
https://nationalautismresources.com/read-cursive-fast/
Many of the errors in medieval manuscripts were caused by cats, which were kept to reduce the errors caused by mice, who liked to chew on parchment. In the image below, you see what happened if a cat used a manuscript to relieve itself.
