#manuscriptcopies

[nubianisms]

A citation from “The Carolingian Quest for the correct text of the Bible” that either went unnoticed by Christians in medieval Nubia or they became too focused on orality:

‘Correct carefully the Psalms, the signs in writing …, the songs, the calendar, the grammar …, and the catholic books; because often some desire to pray to God properly, but they pray badly because of faulty books’ (translated by Paul Edward Dutton, Carolingian Civilization: A Reader, 2nd edn., Toronto, 2009).