Wednesday, 23 November 2016

Protect Your Library the Medieval Way, With Horrifying Book Curses

As well as being a part-time calligrapher I am also involved with books and came across this great article that covers both my loves.

Protect Your Library the Medieval Way, With Horrifying Book Curses: Medieval scribes protected their work by threatening death, or worse.

 http://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/protect-your-library-the-medieval-way-with-horrifying-book-curses

 A 15th century portrait of a scribe. Jean Le Tavernier/Public domain

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