Quote:Morten St. George: Paris, I think days if not months of preparation went into every stroke of that marginalia and thus I view an accidental spill of ink (as suggested by JP) to be highly unlikely.
Morten, the manuscript is full of ink spills (places where the letters filled in where there was too much ink). It's HARD to write with a quill, especially on parchment, even if you've done it for quite a while.