OG12 CR121 Codex Berinensis, a Florentine copy of anancient Roman medical treatise, is undated but contains clues to when it was produced. Its first 80 pages are by a single copyist, but the remaining 20 pages are by three different copyists, which indicates some significant disruption. Since a letter in hand writing identified as that of the fourth copyist mentions aplague that killed many people in Florencein 1148, Codex Berinensis was probably produced in that year.
Which of the following, if true, most strongly supports the hypothesis that Codex Berinensis was produced in 1148?
(A) Other than Codex Berinensis, there are no known samples of the handwriting of the first three copyists.
(B) According to the account by the four thcopyist, the plague went on for 10 months.
(C) Ascribe would be able to copy a page of text the size and style of Codex Berinensis in a day.
(D) There was only one out break of plague in Florence in the 1100s. (E) The number of pages of Codex Berinensis produced by a single scribe becomes smaller with each successive change of copyist. 之前看到很多NN对这道题的讨论,我想了很久很久,这是我的一点看法。 Primise:一个人完成了80页的论文,剩下短短20页却有三个人完成,所以必定有大的打断让三个人陆续不能完成写作。而第四个人的一封信里提到1148年发生了一场大瘟疫死了很多人。