Re: The dangers of old-fashioned writing

From: David Starner (prosfilaes@gmail.com)
Date: Mon Jun 30 2008 - 17:26:18 CDT

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    On Mon, Jun 30, 2008 at 10:35 AM, Andrew West <andrewcwest@gmail.com> wrote:
    > 2008/6/30 Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven <asmodai@in-nomine.org>:
    >>
    >> Biblical Text-Writing May Have Poisoned Monks
    >> http://dsc.discovery.com/news/2008/06/27/poison-monks-mercury.html
    >
    > Great misuse of the word "incunabulum" -- I seriously doubt that the
    > monks were "writing the artistic letters of incunabula".

    It's not impossible; many incunabula had spaces left after printing
    for old-style large letters to be added by hand.

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