First, researchers turned to an existing catalogue of Benedictine colophons, reviewing all 23,774 entries for linguistic ...

A bibliometric analysis of medieval manuscript colophons reveals that at least 1.1% of manuscripts from 800 to 1626 CE were copied by female scribes, totaling over 110,000 texts, with about 8,000 ...

New research suggests that women were the scribes of at least 1.1 percent of manuscripts in the Latin West between 400 and 1500 C.E.

It details a suggested infertility treatment to help women conceive ... how medicine and astrology were entwined in medieval times. One of the most beautiful manuscripts on display belonged ...

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Their analysis had led the team to infer that more than 110,000 manuscripts were made by women, or 1.1 percent of the 10 million manuscripts produced in medieval times. Knowing that only around ...

Since roughly 75,000 of the 10 million medieval manuscripts have survived to modern times, the researchers posit that around 8,000 manuscripts copied by women are still in existence. The ...