10-05-2016, 12:00 PM
I agree that we shouldn't underestimate how much experience, skill and/or planning there is involved in creating something like this. We tend to focus on the places where it looks weird or went wrong, forgetting that they are the exceptions.
The lack of smearing in MS Beinecke 408 can also simply be explained by assuming a now-lost original that was copied. This would allow the copyist to write (or even "draw") the glyphs in the normal way, even though originally they had been written the other way around.
The lack of smearing in MS Beinecke 408 can also simply be explained by assuming a now-lost original that was copied. This would allow the copyist to write (or even "draw") the glyphs in the normal way, even though originally they had been written the other way around.