11-12-2018, 05:08 AM
(11-12-2018, 03:19 AM)-JKP- wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.Iron gall ink could be erased well enough with scrapers or with solvents/acids that it could be overwritten but there were usually faint traces of the lines underneath.
An extensively overwritten text is called a palimpsest.
The Tepenecz signature (or name) at the bottom has been removed with chemicals, but scrapers were more common (they look like exacto-knives, like a pen with a blade in it).
Thanks JP. The area to the right of the two lower weirdos looks cleaner and slightly lighter in color than the area to the left. It also looks like part of a tower glyph was erased and I think I see fragments of an erased token just above that tower glyph. Obviously, I'm claiming that the birds are marginalia drawn contemporaneously with the other marginalia.
I'm withholding judgment on Tepenecz for the time being: the RC had money so they didn't need to sell the VMS; they decoded it themselves so they didn't need to seek the help of Prague cryptographers, and the last people on Earth they would want to get possession of the VMS would be the Jesuits. From 1584 to 1912, I would be surprised if the VMS ever left England.