Her Scriptorium: Monastic Women as Scribes during Medieval Europe

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Beatus, Saint, Presbyter of Liebana, -798. Commentary on the Apocalypse (MS M.644). Spain, San Salvador de Tabara, ca. 945. fol. 233v. MS M.644.
Beatus, Saint, Presbyter of Liebana, -798. Commentary on the Apocalypse (MS M.644). Spain, San Salvador de Tabara, ca. 945. fol. 293r. MS M.644.
A nun named Adruhic claims her work on ff.73v of Augustinus
A nun named Gislildis claims her work on ff.174v of Codex Sci Petrisvbpio Patre
A nun named Eusebio claims her work on ff.289v of Augustinus
A nun named Agnes claims her work on ff.183v of St. Augustine’s Explaination
A nun named Agleberta claims her work on ff.263v of Codex Sci Petrisvbpio Patre
A nun named Vera claims her work on ff.105v of St. Augustine’s Explaination
A nun named Altildis claims her work on ff.151v of Augustinus
A nun named Girbalda claims her work on ff.86v of Codex Sci Petrisvbpio Patre
A nun named Gisudrudis claims her work on ff.224v of Augustinus