Probatio pennae

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An eleventh-century probatio pennae: one of the first known Dutch language fragments (Hebban olla vogala).

Probatio pennae (also written probatio pennę; in Medieval Latin; literally "pen test") is the medieval term for breaking in a new pen, and used to refer to text written to test a newly cut pen.[1]

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Dutch literature, which survived from an eleventh-century probatio pennae in Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Bodley 340.[2]

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