Vt hkskdkxt: Early Medieval Cryptography, Textual Errors, and Scribal Agency

• Published in: Speculum Vol. 93; no. 4; p. 975
• Main Author: Saltzman, Benjamin A
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Cambridge Medieval Academy of America 01.10.2018
• Subjects: Contextualism; Cryptography; Early Middle Ages; Errors; Inscriptions; Medieval period; Monks

Countless cryptographic specimens survive in a great variety of medieval manuscripts, found at the center of pages and in their margins, as colophons, acrostics, and solutions to riddles, as glosses and scribal notes, and occasionally as examples in descriptive tracts on the practice and purpose of...