Since the language is consistent within each lay or romance, it is surmised the scribes worked independently on each whole story as opposed to the manner more commonly used in monasteries in which the monks would copy text directly from the exemplars, only one page at a time, with a catchword inscribed at the bottom corner for later collation.
manuscript | Claude Auchinleck | Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library | Bateman Manuscript Project | Voynich manuscript | Manuscript Society | Bateman manuscript project | Auchinleck | The ''Apicius'' manuscript (ca. 900 AD) of the Fulda monastery | Music manuscript | Manuscript | Judith unwisely allows a young man to have a preliminary look at her father's manuscript of ''The Tempest | Henry Atkinson manuscript | Frontispiece to a manuscript of Octavien's translation of Ovid's ''Heroides | Elbasan Gospel Manuscript | Bower Manuscript | Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library | Auchinleck manuscript | Alexander Boswell, Lord Auchinleck | A detail from a 15th-century manuscript of ''Dala’il al-Khayrat'' showing Al-Masjid an-Nabawi |