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No, wait, that's not really spelling related...

No one has yet gone back to revisit the possible meanings of
"to score big" or "nothing to loose".


Which will tell you not only what kind of monk in but in conjunction with the other clues also what they were using.

Proof reader?


Geggs

Well yes they were all illumination - these are afterall illuminated manuscripts - but this kind in particular did something special, and you can work it out if you solve my riddles.

Not a proof reader.

Nothing to lose suggests a monk who is already on penance, which would make scoring big some kind of redemption maybe.

It might well suggest that..

Is it intentionally 'loose' and not 'lose'?

Were they bound in some way? By something tight-fitting?


Geggs

Did they have any bad habits?

A joke that bad surely has to klaxoned!


Geggs

I made my own spelling error it should "to lose"

A lot of initial letters in liturgical texts are coloured to mark the start of a section. The really important ones got illuminated with pictures that reflect the text. Are we talking about people misinterpreting these and therefore getting their seasons mixed up?

There's a special circle reserved in Hell for such jokes as that, I alas cannot touch him with my mortal tools...

"A lot of initial letters in liturgical texts are coloured to mark the start of a section."

- Yes they are DGI +1


"The really important ones got illuminated with pictures that reflect the text."

Hence 'illuminated manuscripts'


Are we talking about people misinterpreting these and therefore getting their seasons mixed up?

- No we are not.

Could scoring big be related to the (supposed) discovery of a manuscript, or creating a unique work?

The other specific jobs I can think of who would use a text are the cantor (ecclesiastical soloist) or a priest, who would want his missal to be correct.

Some of the pages in the Book of Kells are entirely illuminated. They would therefore require quite substantial scoring...

Is it something to do with correcting mistakes, because if you've done most of the page, and make a mistake in the bottom corner, you really don't want to rip it up and start again.

Geggs

Have a DGI +1 for missal -but the monk in question is not a priest, but who they are hinges on working out the "score" clue.

So we have literal etching, or as you imply a 'discovery' but there are other meanings.

Changing a date? I may be misremembering it but I think Christmas was celebrated in the spring until the 11th or 12th Century.

Other idea I've just had is changing a name to either discredit *or* elevate a contemporary figure...

It's not about correct mistakes no.

I should also point out in case it is confusing, the score big refers to the process and the who. 'with nothing to loose, dehydrates a minor Phoenician' tells you what they they used, "inviting great anger" tells you somethign about it and ties in with the title clue.


ergo, the spelling / removal of letters has to do with solving the riddle about the name of the thing they used.

Ooh! A score is twenty, so changing the number of somthing...