Showing posts with label manuscripts. Show all posts
Showing posts with label manuscripts. Show all posts

Thursday, March 22, 2012

Scribbling Scribes

Illuminating Your Margins

"—a collection of complaints monks scribbled in the pages of illuminated manuscripts."

"Illumination": What a a poetic word for scribbling in the margins! Here at the bookstore, we sell only non-illuminated (not to be mistaken for non-luminous) books. The debate rages as to whether reading a book among a community of previous note-takers is charming or rather odious. Maybe it would be more fun if marginalia worked something like Tom Riddle's diary inThe Chamber of Secrets. Wouldn't you like to have a tete-a-tete with some codgy monk? Something like "Oh stop your bellyaching! It's not like you're dying of the Plague! Oh wait..."