VMS f65r: a "spiked" plant

[Jorge_Stolfi]

Especially when the author writes a paragraph on lower regions of a page, it starts so high it often runs into the drawing while there would be more than enough space below. Was there more text planned or was the writer simply inexperienced (young)?

I see that happening on You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. and f41r.  I think the Scribe was just very bad at layout planning. This "ability" is seen throughout the manuscript.  Whatever the reason.

In fact, on most pages, the text is needlessly crammed together, in some instances touching the drawing, while vast portions of the page remain blank.

On those three pages, apart from the above miscalculation for the first line, the placement of parag 2 seems to be as good as it could be.   I suppose that the Scribe or Author wanted it to be as close to parag 1 as possible, since the two must have been one single text.  And/or the Author wanted to leave space at the bottom of the page, for further annotations (by himself or by a future owner).

Curiously it appears to happen with all hands.

Indeed it is intriguing how all the Scribes were equally inept as illustrators and layout planners...

All the best, --jorge