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Information and Ideas practice question
A scholar claims that the manuscript was produced at the monastery of St Gall.
Which finding, if true, would most directly support the scholar's claim?
- A. The manuscript's script and decoration match those of other books known to have been made at St Gall in the same decade, and its parchment bears the monastery's ownership mark.Correct
- B. St Gall had a large library.
- C. The manuscript is written in Latin.
- D. Many manuscripts from the period have survived.
Answer: A. The manuscript's script and decoration match those of other books known to have been made at St Gall in the same decade, and its parchment bears the monastery's ownership mark.
Matching script and decoration plus the monastery's mark tie the book to St Gall.
Why the other answers are wrong
- B. St Gall had a large library.
- A large library doesn't show this book was made there.
- C. The manuscript is written in Latin.
- Latin was used everywhere.
- D. Many manuscripts from the period have survived.
- Survival rates say nothing about origin.
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