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heaven knows how the monks did it for days, hours on end
in the scriptoria of the middle ages.


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But they got to use gold and colour in their big letters and draw pictures!...the best versions of those books though are the ones with mistakes in where the manager monk wrote in the margin where the writing was sloppy or the words were misspelled and they had to correct it before getting it ticked off...


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very illuminating!


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(to quote buff....)

heh


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