 Many of them remain unknown and unacknowledged but they served the intellectual endeavor of preserving, transmitting and on occasion creating texts.The books they left their legacies within were usually given to the sister of the convent and were dedicated to the abbess, or given or sold to the surrounding community.There are two obituaries that have been found that date back to the sixteenth century, both of the obituaries describe the women who died as a “scriba”.