The only thing that jarred me was the apparent use of white ink where there should be none at this time, for example the white fill on the goat head. BTW, the iron gall ink marginals are a nice touch. It’s a nice stab at the grimoire genre and a breakaway from the parchment and pen grimories. The images have a nice wood block print look, with some uneven transfer and shading you expect of wood block prints, especially large ones, rather than the sharper images of copperplate. The amount of time and handwork was considerable to make a flawless and perfect sheet for writing or printing. In actuality, many much earlier papers were finer than you would probably expect because of the time and expense in making paper 400 years plus ago. It has a lot of eccentricities inherent in some types hand laid papers, that artists often used to effect. I really like the texture of the paper, which reminds me of a thick Japanese mulberry (kozo) paper.
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