>This is very down-to-earth stuff compared to the list`s more literary
>topics. I hope it is of interest to some of you and that I can bombard
>with you awkward questions at some point. The only question I have at the
>moment is about the reminders, in the shape of a pointing hand, (a sort of
>medieval book-mark) in the margins of medieval and renaissance
>manuscripts. I don't know what they are called and where I can read about
>their development and about the use of similar symbols in medieval
>Italian scripts. I'm just reading Petrucci's marvellous Writers and
>Readers in Medieval Italy, 1995, but have no definite clue.
A. C. de la Mare has done some work on these symbols, I believe; you might
try looking at her _The Handwriting of Italian Humanists_.
Best wishes,
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