Question

This is a painting of a scribe making a copy of a manuscript. Answer the

following questions related to this picture:

a) Who were scribes?

b) Why this painting is called miniature painting?

c) Why was manuscript written by hand?

d) Why historians read different manuscript versions of the same text?​

Answer 1

Answer:

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Explanation:

a) A scribe is a person who serves as a professional copyist, especially one who made copies of manuscripts before the invention of automatic printing.

b) Miniature painting, also called (16th–17th century) limning, small, finely wrought portrait executed on vellum, prepared card, copper, or ivory. The name is derived from the minium, or red lead, used by the medieval illuminators.

c) The noun manuscript evolved from the Latin Manuscripts , meaning “written by hand.” Manu is “hand” and scriptus is “to write." It refers to old documents actually written by hand before books were made, but it can also refer to a writer's unpublished work whether it's handwritten or typed.

d) Manuscripts were written with hand and as a result there were small but significant difference between any two copies. The scribes who copied them introduced changes. As a result historians have to read different manuscript versions of the same text to guess what the authors had originally written.

Answer 2

Explanation:

1. scribes where people who copied manuscripts by hand.
2. This painting is on 10.5cm by 7.1cm in size because of its size it is called a miniature painting.
3. During early medieval period , there was no printing press/ printers. so manuscripts were written by hand.
4. Manuscripts were written with hand and as a result there were small but significant difference between any two copies. The scribes who copied them introduced changes. As a result historians have to read different manuscript versions of the same text to guess what the authors had originally written.

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