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

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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.

Actually, there is not much difference in time.
The theory is flawed.
1. the dark colour in the ink on the scorpion You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. is already used on page f75r.
This already invalidates a longer time.
2. if you know how difficult it is to achieve the same colour tone when mixing the ink again, it is confirmed.
See example.
The most likely scenario is that he has simply stirred the ink again so that the suspended particles are released from the bottom of the inkwell.

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