The bug
Since 19w39a, when holding a map and looking at it in first-person mode, the texture does display transparent pixels as black. This happens for holding it in the main hand, or in the offhand.
Since 19w39a, when holding a map and looking at it in first-person mode, the texture does display transparent pixels as black. This happens for holding it in the main hand, or in the offhand.
This appears to be fixed in 19w40a.