18-05-2019, 06:48 PM
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(18-05-2019, 06:29 PM)Anton wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.I don't think the exlibris ink is iron gall, is it?
Iron gall ink would be the standard for a 17th century inscription, so if it isn't iron gall that would raise issues of another sort!
But I agree the presence/absence of a second line is a visual issue that everyone has to decide for themselves.
I would only stress that we have just three other examples of the "No" apart from "Jacobj à Tepenecz No 4." In the two cases where the visual evidence is unambiguously clear, there is a single stroke. In the third case, the Voynich MS, the real existence of a double stroke is for me (at a minimum) not proven. So my concerns over "Jacobj à Tepenecz No 4" remain.