Complex sentence: Roberts noted that the writing is painstaking and rather laboured, with individual letters apparently inked twice (e.g. sigma at line 3 of the recto); and that several letters are inclined to stray away from the notional upper and lower writing lines.
Split into simpler sentences: Roberts noted that the writing is painstaking and rather laboured, with individual letters apparently inked twice (e.g. sigma at line 3 of the recto). Several letters are inclined to stray away from the notional upper and lower writing lines.