A Medieval textbook 

That's so amazing! I didn't know what to expect when I discovered this channel! But I'm so glad I did. I've been watching the "periods" playlists and I have been learning so much.Thanks for the work. I hope it grows.

i watched this video 4 times and took pictures. I have been decorating my daily Journals and I always take ideas from these beautiful videos. I learned long time ago to use coffee to change the color of the pages and make it look old. I never imagine that after all these years my journals will smell like coffee. THANK YOU for this video and the new ones to come.

I love seeing the 'rough around the edges' parts of parchment.

"Vel" was a tiny revelation for me - an ancestor (or close cousin) of the plus sign? It's amazing how much work went into the production of a single book and how far humanity's come since then... Now we can read all kinds of books, in many fonts / languages, and digitally annotate beyond the margins (if you're a Google Doc fiend like me, lol). I respect those who care enough about education to make it happen then and now.

A labor of love. Just listening to these wonderful experts is an experience in itself. My eyes, not hands, are doing the flipping. Thank you!

Amazing. I imagine that the work itself with its repetitions, precision and hours upon hours of steady work must have been not only a "job", but somehow almost a spiritual exercise: perfecting themselves in patience and humility. Also it seems that the act of preparing the pages, writing with single strokes, reading and copying had meditative qualities. I think that working this way, with such devotion had to have results in a lifes of monks and in their views. Not only these were the most educated people in Europe but also they helped to preserve and spread the knowledge thanks to copying. Copying the text had to be not only a challenging (and maybe boring at times) task, but it probably gave many opportunities for the scribes to learn something new with each new text. The process itself is fascinating and the impact on a scribe's life, and on the whole civilization tremendous and beautiful.

Cool man. Never had this kind of a thing unpacked like this to understand. Thanks

Excelente. Gracias desde Durango, México.

I always have trouble reading medieval manuscripts, not just because of the font and the language, but because everything's always so crammed together, and the scribes use all sorts of abbreviations. Parchment being so expensive, you obviously didn't want to waste any. Ancient Roman texts are even worse; they often didn't even have proper spacing in between the words!

this was so fascinating

Nice video 💯

Ahhh... So that explains why my textbooks are so expensive... wait a second.