[split] Jorge's Retracer Thread: darker ink, retracing of text and drawings

[Jorge_Stolfi]

Is there any way to establish how much later this [retracing] could have happened?

No idea.  Except that it must have been decades later, because the obvious motivation was that the original writing had faded out to the point of becoming almost illegible.

Also, the original Scribe must have known the Voynichese alphabet and must have been supervised by the Author who invented the script (if they were not the same person); whereas the Retracer seems to have worked independently and did not know the alphabet.  The Retracer was generally very careful while retracing the text, but, IIRC, there are a few cases where he/she mangled a glyph into an invalid squiggle.