28-03-2016, 01:44 PM
About those gaps in the text- I think you are right in that they deserve attention. However, their presence both next to the drawing and isolated from the drawing, both next to large open spaces and within blocks of text, slightly undermines the hypothesis that they were meant to leave room for an image.
Your other suggestion seems more likely: perhaps they were left for a collague who would add letters in another script. My own first guess would be that they were meant for text in a different color of ink. Often place was left for exactly that.
Your other suggestion seems more likely: perhaps they were left for a collague who would add letters in another script. My own first guess would be that they were meant for text in a different color of ink. Often place was left for exactly that.