matter-of-fact proto-gothic script

Preparation Steps

Original Recipe Text

The manuscript represents a 'reportatio', a process whereby a student copies down a master’s oral lecture in shorthand and then later expands these notes, smoothes them out and possibly even corrects them under the master’s guidance (p. 51). In the case of BnF lat. 620, it is a full and polished report of Peter Comestor’s lecture course (p. 50).

Evidence

"BnF 620, with its consistent annotations and matter-of-fact proto-gothic script, seems to have originally fallen into the former category."

Remarks

BnF lat. 620 was composed in France in the last quarter of the twelfth century (p. 52). It contains reports of all four of Comestor’s Gospel lectures and was likely intended to circulate as a single book (p. 52). The script is identified as proto-gothic, consistent with late 12th-century Parisian school production (p. 53).