27-02-2017, 02:28 AM
It's hard to know if the person who added the month names was the same person who touched up many of the drawings.
Whoever added the month names didn't care if their labels clobbered the drawings and wrote right over them in some parts. If the person cared about "fixing" drawings, it seems like an odd attitude to "break" some of them with sloppy overwritten labels.
I don't know. I suspect it may have been a different person who touched up the drawings, but maybe they used the same kind of ink as the person who wrote the labels. Maybe the manuscript was moved from one location to another where available inks or materials for inks were a little different.
From what I've read so far, inks were frequently home-made but they could also be purchased in the marketplace from vendors who mixed them in bulk.
Whoever added the month names didn't care if their labels clobbered the drawings and wrote right over them in some parts. If the person cared about "fixing" drawings, it seems like an odd attitude to "break" some of them with sloppy overwritten labels.
I don't know. I suspect it may have been a different person who touched up the drawings, but maybe they used the same kind of ink as the person who wrote the labels. Maybe the manuscript was moved from one location to another where available inks or materials for inks were a little different.
From what I've read so far, inks were frequently home-made but they could also be purchased in the marketplace from vendors who mixed them in bulk.