Book Arts Tuesday-Scribes at Work

The British Library's Medieval Manuscripts blog has frequent and wonderful posts. I particularly like this one about scribes at work. Here's how the topic is introduced:

When we speak to visitors or students about our medieval manuscripts, we frequently find ourselves spending a significant amount of time talking about how such books were created. We discuss the ways that scribes worked and artists painted, and quite often we will then be asked just how it is that we can know such details. There are, of course, medieval manuals for craftspeople that still exist, but often we can find clues in the manuscripts themselves. Writing was a skill that was hard-won and greatly valued, and many authors and scribes were memorialised by their artisan brethren.

The Burden of Writing: Scribes in Medieval Manuscripts