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Island life

Island life

Heures. Source: gallica.bnf.fr Bibliothèque nationale de France, Département des manuscrits, Latin 9473, fol. 190r.

Page fix, blue stitch

Page fix, blue stitch

It looks like instead of re-attaching a corner of this page, a fresh sheet of parchment was trimmed to fit and stitched …

Book mold

Book mold

And other water damage. Ivo Carnotensis, Commentarius in Psalmos (1-129). Source: gallica.bnf.fr Bibliothèque nationale de France, Département des manuscrits, Latin 12000, fol. …

Acidic ink

Acidic ink

Évangile de saint Jean, venu de l’église de Chartres. Source: gallica.bnf.fr Bibliothèque nationale de France, Département des manuscrits, Latin 10439, fol. 65r.

Ink damage

Ink damage

Sometimes paper didn’t hold up well to thick applications of acidic ink. 1.° Galfridi Anglici poëtria nova. — 2.° Anonymus de coloribus …

Evangelical inkpot

Evangelical inkpot

Evangelia quattuor [Évangiles de Saint-Médard de Soissons] (1v-221v). Capitulare evangeliorum (223r-235v). Source: gallica.bnf.fr Bibliothèque nationale de France, Département des Manuscrits, Latin 8850, …