(28-09-2024, 03:53 PM)pfeaster wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.To me, this suggests that the text and drawings on each of these pages were likely created during the same session, with the same faulty pen. I haven't tried to study this type of correspondence methodically, but a quick perusal seems to support a hypothesis that the pictures and text on any given page tend to share the same overall pen-and-ink profile (including "mixed" profiles, as on f73v). I wonder if there are any really obvious exceptions.
Another page with noticeable line-doubling in both the Voynichese text and the drawing is f17r. Notably, the marginalia at the top also features line-doubling, most obviously in the top of the [a] in [malhor].
This is a very keen observation, I've never seen this discussed before.
I'm trying to see the doubling on f17r, couldn't find anything in the main text. Could you help me by pointing at some specific locations on the page? There is one 'o' with doubling at the top, but this could be just the start and the end of the stroke overlapping. The only place where I see the doubling clearly is the top of the central flower, and even there I'm not sure whether this looks like a defect of the pen or just a double stroke, since both lines have a very clean edge.
Curiously, there is also a little bit of empty space in 7 in the folio number, but this is probably unrelated.
Update: I've cropped the start of the top margin inscription from UV_007 TIFF from the MSI set, there is no processing here other than cropping and conversion from 16 bit to 8 bit. To me this shape variation in 'a' looks more like a correction than a pen defect, but I'm not an expert in quill writing.