Neurological condition probably caused medieval scribe’s shaky handwriting
Manuscript analysis suggests 13th century writer had essential tremor
![Nicene Creed](https://i0.wp.com/www.sciencenews.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/101715_scivis_feat.jpg?fit=860%2C460&ssl=1)
SHAKY SCRIPT An anonymous 13th century scribe with an unsteady hand wrote manuscripts including this early Middle English version of the Nicene Creed. Scientists now suspect the writer had a neurological condition called essential tremor.
Bodleian Library/Univ. of Oxford 2015, Ms. Junius 121, Fol. Vi Recto