This article explores how the ancient graphic symbol of the obelus changed from being an instrument of textual criticism to a tool of censure between c. 200 and 900.
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This article will be published in M. Teeuwen et I. van Renswoude (ed.), The Annotated Book in the Early Middle Ages. Practices of Reading and Writing, Turnhout: Brepols 2018 (Utrecht Studies in Medieval Literacy, 38), p. 555-595.