28-10-2025, 11:12 AM
(30-09-2025, 12:10 AM)ReneZ wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.The paint lies on top of the parchment while the ink goes inside (mostly)
This would be partly true for ink on paper, as the ink partly soaks into the fibers. But on parchment the ink should stay mostly on the surface. It would bind to it chemically, not mechanically, while becoming an insoluble opaque polymer.
Even if the ink is applied over solid pigment paint, the pigment grains should become coated with it, at least partially.
Thus I see that painted-over folio number as definite proof that the painting happened after the book was bound. And since the binding has the bifolios in the wrong order -- even those in the Bio section, where the order presumably matters -- it seems all but certain that the painting was done when the book was no longer in the Author's hands.
Indeed, I gather that the style of the folio numbers puts the binding centuries after the original writing. Isn't that so?
All the best, --jorge