The Voynich Ninja

Pareidolia ?

(14-04-2026, 03:03 PM)oshfdk Wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.Maybe the polymer unattached to the vellum was scrabbed off by friction of the adjacent folio.

But that is what made iron-gall ink "the" ink for writing on vellum: unlike other inks, it could not be erased by rubbing, because the polymer was chemically bonded to the leather.  To erase the ink once it was set, one had to scrape it off with a blade, together with the top layer of the vellum.

(14-04-2026, 06:10 PM)Jorge_Stolfi Wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.But that is what made iron-gall ink "the" ink for writing on vellum: unlike other inks, it could not be erased by rubbing, because the polymer was chemically bonded to the leather.  To erase the ink once it was set, one had to scrape it off with a blade, together with the top layer of the vellum.

But this is exactly what I said? The polymer was scrubbed off by friction where it wasn't chemically bonded to the vellum. Parts of ink that touched the vellum stayed, parts of ink that were on top of grains of the paint got erased by friction, because they weren't chemically bonded to the vellum.