{"id":67,"date":"2020-09-04T17:39:35","date_gmt":"2020-09-04T17:39:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/reed-scriptorium\/?page_id=67"},"modified":"2026-03-11T07:59:40","modified_gmt":"2026-03-11T15:59:40","slug":"exemplars","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/reed-scriptorium\/exemplars\/","title":{"rendered":"Exemplars"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.etymonline.com\/word\/exemplar#etymonline_v_32836\">exemplar&nbsp;(n.)<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>late 14c., &#8220;original model of the universe in the mind of God,&#8221; later (mid-15c.) &#8220;model of virtue,&#8221; from Old French exemplaire (14c.) and directly from Late Latin exemplarium, from Latin exemplum &#8220;a copy, pattern, model&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Examples&#8221; can be good or bad. &#8220;Exemplars&#8221; should be the best examples. However, even the best exemplar is still just an example, a guide to assist us in the analysis of a given script. As Jaki Svaren says in her book <em>Written Letters<\/em>, &#8220;It would indeed be a mistake to work from this little book believing the examples in any way adequate to replace the historical models.&#8221; <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>exemplar&nbsp;(n.) late 14c., &#8220;original model of the universe in the mind of God,&#8221; later (mid-15c.) &#8220;model of virtue,&#8221; from Old French exemplaire (14c.) and directly from Late Latin exemplarium, from Latin exemplum &#8220;a copy, pattern, model&#8221; &#8220;Examples&#8221; can be good or bad. &#8220;Exemplars&#8221; should be the best examples. However, even the best exemplar is still [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2399,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-67","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/reed-scriptorium\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/67","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/reed-scriptorium\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/reed-scriptorium\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/reed-scriptorium\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2399"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/reed-scriptorium\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=67"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/reed-scriptorium\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/67\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":114,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/reed-scriptorium\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/67\/revisions\/114"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/reed-scriptorium\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/reed-scriptorium\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/reed-scriptorium\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}