[split] Marginalia Latin script [GENERAL DISCUSSION]

[davidjackson]

Purely because I don't think many people realise the scales involved, here is a photo of the actual text compared to a modern printed book

   
From which you can see that the scribe not only had a steady hand (I certainly couldn't write that small, even with modern materials) and also had good eyesight.

 I think we can assume it was a young man who wrote this