Island life
Heures. Source: gallica.bnf.fr Bibliothèque nationale de France, Département des manuscrits, Latin 9473, fol. 190r.
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
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
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
Sometimes paper didn’t hold up well to thick applications of acidic ink. 1.° Galfridi Anglici poëtria nova. — 2.° Anonymus de coloribus …
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, …