Manuscript Leaf Fragment, Medieval Art
Medium: Ink on parchment
Gift of H.E. Winlock, 1938
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
http://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/475058
This is a leaf that has been in a fire! You can tell fire damage from other types of damage because it warps the parchment. The high heat causes the parchment to contract and curl (you can see this particularly in the dark patches in the middle of the leaf). It’s possible that the large gap on the right side of the page was made by a conservator during treatment. This was done for example with the manuscripts damaged in the Ashburnham House fire in 1731, which destroyed and damaged parts of the Cotton Collection now housed in the British Library (see this blog post at the British Library blog). Slicing them enabled the conservators to lay them flat. See an example from Cotton MS Tiberius E VI below (from the BL blog post linked above):
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