Ink/pen dynamics and the rhythms of writing

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I searched for top 100 manuscripts from 1380-1439 on digitale-sammlungen.de and picked those that had color scans of high quality, and then checked a couple of pages from each looking for ink density irregularities. I tried to find any examples of a sharp border between the dark and light ink within a single pen stroke. I couldn't find any comparable to that in VMS. There are a few examples where there is at least some resemblance (marked with red arrows). Overall these are the examples of the largest variation in ink density I could find, which is still far, far smaller than that in VMS.