Lancelot-Graal Project
Amsterdam, Bibliotheca
Philosophica Hermetica, MS 1, vol. ii, f. 202r
Erasure
These marks in the bottom margin are erasures, intended to remove
traces of leadpoint notes put in as guides either to the rubricator or
to the illustrator, or both. Notes of both types, usually in
different
kinds of script, are still found on several folios in this manuscript
and its sister manuscripts,
providing valuable evidence for how the rubrics and pictures were
created in this workshop. Here the erasure has been crudely done,
leaving ugly traces on the manuscript. Also visible on this
detail is the modern folio number, written in pencil in the bottom left
corner of the page.