21-12-2025, 11:07 PM
(21-12-2025, 10:23 PM)addekallstrom wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.As you can see on the picture below, the top line is about as flat/straight of an angle as you would expect from someone writing by hand, it is essentially perfect.
The bottom three lines, all of them, are arched, almost vaulted, rising upwards towards the middle of the page before falling downwards again.
I'm not sure any conclusions can be made from this.
1) The first line is right next to the edge of the folio, the edge could serve as a good visual aid.
2) The folio is damaged and it's quite possible the vellum has shrunk in places, the bottom three lines could have been much straighter initially.
3) The top line is very short, it's much easier to keep a short inscription perfectly level, compared to a line that goes across the whole folio.