Probatio pennae
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Probatio pennae
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Probatio pennae is the medieval term for breaking in a new pen, and used to refer to text written to test a newly cut pen. A scribe would normally test a newly cut pen to see if it wrote well by writing a few lines of text on a piece of blotting paper. Sometimes these blotting papers survived due to being used afterwards as book binding material; they often provide unique, less "serious" textual material that would otherwise have been lost. A famous example is "Hebban olla vogala", one of the fi
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Medieval term for breaking in a new pen
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