{"id":18778,"date":"2022-09-29T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-09-28T22:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbchistoryrevealed\/?post_type=purple_issue&p=18778"},"modified":"2022-10-03T16:41:46","modified_gmt":"2022-10-03T14:41:46","slug":"who-was-the-tremulous-hand-of-worcester","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbchistoryrevealed\/2022\/09\/29\/who-was-the-tremulous-hand-of-worcester\/","title":{"rendered":"Who was the Tremulous Hand of Worcester?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Q&A<\/span><\/h4>\n\n

Who was the Tremulous Hand of Worcester?<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n
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IN NOT-SO-SAFE HANDS<\/strong> A fire-damaged medieval manuscript, complete with some tremulous additions from the Tremulous Hand <\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n
\u2022 <\/span>SHORT ANSWER<\/span><\/h5>\n\n

A medieval scribe with a lot to say, but not the neatest handwriting <\/p>\n\n

\u2022 <\/span>LONG ANSWER<\/span> <\/h5>\n\n

If you look at selected Old English manuscripts, such as the venerable Bede\u2019s <\/span>Ecclesiastical History of the English People <\/em>from the eighth century, you\u2019ll notice in the margins or between the lines of the beautifully scribed texts some notations. What\u2019s more, they\u2019ll look a little… shaky. That manuscript was \u2018glossed\u2019 by the Tremulous Hand, a 13th-century scribe at Worcester Cathedral Priory. While his true identity is unknown, his distinctive handwriting offers clues. He was certainly prolific, glossing some 50,000 times, and a pedant: changing punctuation, updating Old to Middle English and French, and just as capable to comment in Latin. The reason for his name was a neurological condition, which may have been an \u2018essential tremor\u2019 that worsened over his long career.<\/span><\/p>\n\n

BRIDGEMAN<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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