TOEFL Read an Academic Passage Practice #055 - Read an Academic Passage - Marginalia and the Active Life of Medieval Manuscripts

What you will practice

• Reading comprehension
• Evidence and inference
• Time management

Topic: History · Read an Academic Passage

Passage preview

Medieval manuscripts are often treated as finished objects, but many remained in use for generations after they were copied. In the margins, scribes and later readers added glosses: brief notes that translated difficult words, identified sources, or offered…