It's fascinating to think of the mediæval scribal system as a really, really low-bandwodth Wikipedia, with thousands of men over centuries passing notes and slo

It's fascinating to think of the mediæval scribal system as a really, really low-bandwodth Wikipedia, with thousands of men over centuries passing notes and slowly developing the corpus of information which underlies of modern civilisation. Who were those scribes who wife each of those letters with a precision which would be the envy of an 80s dot-matrix printer? What were their hopes and dreams? Could they have imagined an age like ours?