[split] color annotations?

[ReneZ]

I don't know whether René mentioned it earlier (it's something I noticed independently) ...

@JKP,

I am sure you have observed and derived many things completely independently, and I am also fairly sure that in many cases it is not easy to figure out afterwards who saw what first. I know you have been working independently and without exchanging (much) with others for many years.

It's a real pity that this spectre of 'who said what first' is haunting so many discussions.
It is obviously to be expected that if many dozens of people are looking at the same thing, many people will come to the same conclusions completely independently.

Priority only starts playing a role when it comes to significant points.

With respect to the colour annotations, I only know this much:

I first noticed the characters that I now read as 'rot' in 1999 when I saw the Voynich MS in the Beinecke for the first time. I did not read it as 'rot' but thought that these could be Greek letters.

Of course I won't claim that I was the first to see this. I have no way of knowing that.  
Also that should be obvious, and anyone claiming the be the first to observe this or that has the impossible task of proving that nobody saw it before.

Anyway.
Essentially all of these annotations were listed after the colour scans became first available at the Beinecke. This was at one of the pages at 'voynich central', now no longer there. At that time, the reading of 'rot' as such was first proposed to my knowledge (not by me).

I only became convinced that these were indeed colour annotations when I first saw the images of the Vicenza MS, and at that time I realised the implication that the person making these notes would have had German as his first language.
I specifically remember that this happened just after the 2009 Austrian documentary appeared. I'm sure that the producer would have been interested in including it somewhere, had this happened earlier.

The supposed writing inside the brown 'berry' on You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. may be imaginary, but there really seems to be something in the yellow leaf. Somehow it almost looks like pencil.

Many things are just artefacts from the parchment surface. A good example are the green stripes  You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. .