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These are some useful words from the book which you can look up (they are in a slightly different colour) if you want to sort your 'refuge' from your 'retreat'. The glossary page In the days before printing, scribes would add some text above the original if they wanted to add or change anything - we get our expression 'putting a gloss on something' from this practice of changing what was written. And all of the many changes might be brought together into a glossary which explained, or expanded, what had been written in the manuscript. ... and manuscript just means something something that is written by hand (from two Latin words) ... and I write with my pen (which comes from the Latin or Italian for feather - pena) as I still collect goose feathers to write in the old scripts. And of course, I need my special feather knife, which you know as a penknife, to make my 'pens'. |
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