[split] Color annotations?

[MarcoP]

IIRC there was some consensus here that these letters in the plants are likely to be color annotations.
The fact that this one, like several others,  does not correspond to the actual color used reinforces my opinion that the colors were added by someone who had little if any understanding of the manuscript's text nor a very in-depth understanding of paint preparation or illumination practices, and possibly also poor/undeveloped/declining fine motor skills.

29v is a great example of the contrasting levels of skill between the person who drew the plant and the person who added the colors.
The plant itself is actually drawn with attention to detail. However the rendering of the details of the leaves' texture is almost totally ruined by the awfully sloppy paint job.
In the flower part up top, the painter just manages to stay within the lines of simple large red dots. In the roots and stalk, the yellow is uneven and streaky.
So IMO, the fact that the paint color doesn't correspond to the "r" annotation is not a problem: it just adds weight to the scenario I describe above.
As I've stated before, in analyzing the Voynich I strongly believe we are better off just ignoring the paint colors completely.

Hi VViews,
I totally agree. That these are colour annotations is perfectly consistent with the available evidence. This has also been confirmed by an authority like Touwaide in his 2016 paper:

Voynich ms illustrations contain instructions about the colors to be applied to pen drawings, according to the different parts of plants. Such instructions mention the name of the color to be applied (Voynich f4r), but in German, a peculiar fact that does not seem to be compatible with a Northern Italian origin of the manuscript. 

As someone else (Emma?) recently wrote, carbon dating the ms has not stopped the flourishing of American theories. So I am afraid that expecting consensus on anything is not realistic.

I copy and paste some more from threads you have already read (in particular, You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.).

Colour annotations are also sometimes ignored in You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.. This is even clearer now that we also know You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. (a more accurate copy of the same original).
For instance, the blossoms (?) in Imorio are labeled "rossa" (red) but were turned into green leaves in the Vermont herbal.
The stems in Tora (one of the plants from the Alchemical Herbal) are also labelled "rosso". They were painted correctly in the Udine ms, but they are green in the Vermont copy.
   


In the VMS, the leaves in You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. are painted green and yellow. Two of them are labelled 'g' and 'j': it seems that at least sometimes the colour annotations have been followed.



An open "p" similar to the one discussed You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. appears in an annotation in Vicenza Bertoliana ms 362 (the Italian ms with German annotations originally pointed out by Rene).