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For centuries, the image of a monk hunched over a manuscript, painstakingly copying text by candlelight, has dominated perceptions of medieval book production. However, a recent study has provided the first quantitative analysis of female scribes’ contributions to manuscript copying, revealing that women played a small but steady role in this field. Published in Humanities and Social Sciences Communications, the research estimates that at least 110,000 manuscripts were copied by female scribes during the Middle Ages, with around 8,000 still surviving today.

By applying manuscript survival rate estimates, the researchers calculated that the total number of manuscripts copied by women throughout the Middle Ages exceeded 110,000 (assuming that the recent estimate that more than 10 million hand-written manuscripts were produced in the Latin West during this period is accurate). Their findings suggest that there were likely many more female scribes and book-producing communities that remain unidentified in historical records.

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