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>
> Questio Duo (and more important) : i know that scribal "signatures" of
> various
> types --simple or complex, in colophons, at the beginnings or ends of
> mss,
> whatever & wherever-- are very, very common, but what about
> *[self-]portraits*
> of scribes ??
Have a look at: Gosbert Schüssler, Der symbolische Buchstabe.
Ungewöhnliche Künstlerbildnisse des Mittelalters, in: Text als Realie.
Veröffentlichungen des Inst. f. Realienkunde ... 18, OeAW phil. hist.
Kl. Sb. 704, Wien 2003 ISBN 3-7001-3182-8, 359-386. If its difficult
for you to get it, send your postal adress to [log in to unmask] and my
friends there will provide you with a copy.
yours
b.k.
>
> it has been suggested to me that there may be cases of true "author
> portraits"
> which may have the characteristics of the scribe/illuminator, in a
> kind of
> associative "self-portrait" of the latter, but, even if such examples
> could be
> proven to exist, that is clearly not what we have here, even though
> the "form"
> of the drawing is certainly based on the quite common "author portrait"
> model.
>
> whatever his name is, this guy is drawing *himself*, in the act of
> writing, is
> he not ?
>
> does anyone know of other --clear & demonstrable-- examples of such
> "scribal
> self-portraits" ?
>
> finally, the "previous publication" of this drawing which i mentioned
> earlier
> is in : Langlois, "Scribes de Chartres", Revue Mabillon, I, 1905, p.
> 162.
>
> Indiana U. doesn't have this particular issue of the periodical and i
> wonder
> if there is anyone out there who has access to it who would volunteer
> to xerox
> or (better) scan a copy of it for me ? (off-list responses would be
> best, i
> suppose.)
>
> many thanks to all in advance.
>
> christopher
>
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