10-09-2016, 10:18 AM
I am not so sure that water would have much of an effect on iron gall ink that has already dried.
It's probably worth trying to find out.
Whatever it was, it penetrated the parchment. It's visible on 102r, 102v, 103r, 103v and 104r.
Most affected are 102v and 103r, and perhaps the damage to the ink is from attempts to scrape it off. The smaller spot seems to have been mainly on 103v and 104r, and there is a similar one just a few pages before that.
What I'd really like to know is how (un)usual such spots are. There is something similar on the first folio of the alchemical herbal Florence MS 106, and I long suspect a connection between the two MSs, for reasons which I have probably already posted elsewhere.
It's probably worth trying to find out.
Whatever it was, it penetrated the parchment. It's visible on 102r, 102v, 103r, 103v and 104r.
Most affected are 102v and 103r, and perhaps the damage to the ink is from attempts to scrape it off. The smaller spot seems to have been mainly on 103v and 104r, and there is a similar one just a few pages before that.
What I'd really like to know is how (un)usual such spots are. There is something similar on the first folio of the alchemical herbal Florence MS 106, and I long suspect a connection between the two MSs, for reasons which I have probably already posted elsewhere.