14-12-2025, 04:06 PM
It's good to question things we "know for sure" and actually revisit the evidence. In this case though, I'm just not sure if we could say for the entirety of Q13 that the text came first. You mention f75r. If the text came first, that means the scribe did something like this (I accidentally erased the smaller text in the triangle top left - had it been kept, the effect would have been even more bizarre):
This is the kind of layout we expect when the text is following a picture that's already there. This is not different from what's happening in the Herbal pages. So why not expand it to those as well? Did the writer(s) leave weird spaces everywhere, that were creatively filled up with drawings? What would be their reason for doing so?
This is the kind of layout we expect when the text is following a picture that's already there. This is not different from what's happening in the Herbal pages. So why not expand it to those as well? Did the writer(s) leave weird spaces everywhere, that were creatively filled up with drawings? What would be their reason for doing so?