Mirror Reality

[The manuscript is illuminated here with a study of hands. The artist depicts them in natural postures, like prayer, writing or pointing. One sketch represents a hand which seems to reach out from the page in an inviting gesture, with the palm open upwards; the drawing has an unsettling effect; it is compelling, in a way hard to describe.

Another sketch, one that represents writing hands, has helped us confirm that the quill found with the manuscript is one of many used to write the text. It depicts the plume in painstaking detail, showing every barb, and the stain we found on the original.]