[split] f28v

[Mark Knowles]

Given the resolution of the scan we can argue what we see and what we don't, without a higher resolution scan it looks like we won't be able to agree on what is there and what not, so ultimately I can only give an interpretation, not originally my own. Therefore your idea of what is required as regards to squinting is yours not mine.

While I agree that amount-of-squinting is an inherently subjective measure, higher resolution scans would not make any difference. The text is unreadable not because we are missing some tiny details that could be revealed by a microscope, but because the overall shape of the characters is unrecognizable: the text is so small and poorly executed that one cannot even tell which alphabet was used, if the text was meant to be read upside-down, how many distinct glyphs are present.

A higher resolution scan could make it clearer the strokes that were used to construct this text and therefore what the author was trying to write. Anyway I imagine that at this time there are no such higher resolution scans available, so until such a scan is available then everything remains uncertain and a higher quality scan may not help much, but then again I think it may.