Hand Copying the Entire Manuscript

[seridane]

That's amazing, well done! I think I see a herb Paris  

I'm impressed by your rendering of the small plant page, very clean and crisp. I wouldn't mind seeing more of those. Or anything really.

What was your experience like doing this project?

Thankyou! And that is Herb Paris! I didn't draw any plant's in the herbal section that don't exist in real life. I'm going to create a pdf or something of my entire document once I've got everything finished, scanned and formatted and I'm happy to share it. Along with my plant list and everything else.

I'm not sure if I have words yet to describe the whole experience. It's been wild, delightful, frustrating, exhausting, and exhilarating in turns. I highly recommend doing it if you really want to deep dive your brain into the imagery - it's one thing to look at the images, another entirely to examine them in detail in order to redraw them. And the text as well. I don't have any theories on encryption solutions or languages - but copying it out feels like writing a language, not gibberish. There are phrases that repeat enough that I started "knowing" what the next word was before I looked to copy it. 

I am so happy I almost have it finished and it will be done, but there's a part of my brain that's already turning over things I would do differently if I were to do it again from the start and I might. Not any time soon, but at some point.