02-08-2025, 11:03 PM
To me it looks like the scribe is struggling there. I like to remind people that medieval manuscripts are made by dragging a sharpened animal part over another animal's skin.
I would agree that this is not just a place where the ink didn't take - there is a clear interruption and the glyph is continued "off track".
For the bench, almost looks like they started with what should be the second leg+plume and then attached another second leg to it. My naive interpretation of this clip would be that the parchment is troublesome here, the pen stuttered and the scribe was thrown off several times.
But what do you think it is?
I would agree that this is not just a place where the ink didn't take - there is a clear interruption and the glyph is continued "off track".
For the bench, almost looks like they started with what should be the second leg+plume and then attached another second leg to it. My naive interpretation of this clip would be that the parchment is troublesome here, the pen stuttered and the scribe was thrown off several times.
But what do you think it is?