F66r question

[davidjackson]

It has just occurred to me that the bottom of the page next to the reclining woman has been deliberately cut away, and done so in such a fashion as to not cut the roots on the plant on the reverse side, You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.


It is of course impossible to determine whether this was done before or after writing, but I would suggest afterwards:
- this sort of incision at the bottom of a page is just about unique in the book
- the natural line of the bottom of the page would continue naturally without this semi circle, indicating it is an act of later vandalism
- the roots on You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. are so close to the cut that I would have expected the ink to have splashed onto the page below, or the painter to have adjusted the root is the cut had been there when he did the original drawing
- the cut is not very well done. If we examine the edges of the cut we see it has been done in a more irregular fashion than the original cut that created the folio.