Diane, I agree that the find of the manuscript and the drawings is of great interest and appreciate that René conveyed Michelle Smith's message.
But I don't know if you missed post #17, but I'm quite certain and have given the rationale, that this is not an example of a scribe transitioning between humanist and Gothic writing. The other handwriting is a series of glosses by someone else.
Note, there are also commentators who think the marginal drawing (the one that is very VMS-like) may be in more than one hand. I haven't had enough time to study this possibility, it's an intriguing one, so I don't know if I would agree or disagree, but I thought it worth mentioning that there are a variety of ideas about it.
But I don't know if you missed post #17, but I'm quite certain and have given the rationale, that this is not an example of a scribe transitioning between humanist and Gothic writing. The other handwriting is a series of glosses by someone else.
Note, there are also commentators who think the marginal drawing (the one that is very VMS-like) may be in more than one hand. I haven't had enough time to study this possibility, it's an intriguing one, so I don't know if I would agree or disagree, but I thought it worth mentioning that there are a variety of ideas about it.