On the skill of a scribe. Misadjustements and corrections on the font at Villlusto (Burgos)
Abstract
It is through the analysis of the traces left in an inscription that we can rebuild its genesis process as well as the problems derived from that genesis. Now we analyse the skill of a scribe who executed the inscription of the font at Villusto, where we shall see the errors he made and the resources he used to carry out the corrections.
The method followed to analyse this inscription elaboration process is the one accounted for by Professors García Lobo and Martín López in their Introducción a la Epigrafía Medieval (An introduction to Medieval Epigraphy), developed by García Lobo in La Epigrafía Medieval. Cuestiones del método (Medieval Epigraphy. Questions about its Method) and which is the one that has been used in the edition of Corpus Inscriptionum Hispaniae Mediaevalium.
The aim of all this is to show who was or were the real author(s) of the inscription, their background and expertise and the relationship between the scriptoria of books and epigraphs and the sculptor’s workshops.
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