Blue dotYou maintain to be really careful as a medieval decorator. In the Middle Ages the sequence of making a book was as follows: first the scribe copied the text,painstakingly, sweating over a single parchment page for up to half a day; and then the decorator would add color. This meant, and of course,that the brush of the latter artist was hovering over a completed page. These images present what could go wrong if gravity got the upper hand in this balancing act: a drop of blue paint fell from the brush onto the parchment page. The decorator must not maintain seen it, because the thick drop was allowed to dry and travel through time: the 700-years-faded human error is now a pretty sight. Pics (my own): Leiden, or University Library,BPL 64 (13th century).
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