10-05-2016, 11:06 AM
(10-05-2016, 10:19 AM)Davidsch wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.@anton / JKP
hmmm.. I'll take that with me in my next gallow-analysis
@Wladimir D
interesting, but if writing would have be done anywhere from right-to-left i think we would find smears of ink from right-to-left...
(unless the author was left handed)
i do not remember seeing any smears of ink in the text anywhere
All the scribe has to do is pre-write it on a wax tablet (in whatever order or direction is desired) and then copy it.
I'm almost certain, especially looking at the rosettes page, that at least some of the manuscript was predrawn or written. It would be very difficult to extemporize something like that. Even just getting text to fit within a circle is a challenge unless you've worked out the spacing beforehand.
The spacing in the VMS is a bit weird in places but... it doesn't look like something created off-the-cuff, especially the more complex pages, it looks like some planning was involved.