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

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Who was that ?

Possibly A. H. Carter, although it doesn't seem clear that he was a paleographer. 

Here's a reference in Currier: 

These findings put an entirely different complexion on this problem than any that I think I have noted before in any other discussions or solutions. It’s curious to me that a calligraphic or paleographic expert in one of the writings I have seen* says that the writing is consistent throughout, and is obviously the work of one man. Well, it obviously isn’t, and I don’t see how anyone who had any training could make any such statement, but there it is!

* ‘‘Some Impressions of the Voynich Manuscript,’’ unpublished notes by Prof. A. H. Carter (Former technical historian, Army Security Agency), 1946, p. 1. -Ed

There's also a reference in D'Imperio, although it is in a section about the relationships of the drawing to the text, rather than specifically about whether there were different scribes:

Elizebeth Friedman states for example "There can be no question that the same scribe wrote the text and made the drawings, as any handwriting expert would readily agree" (1962).  Dr A. H. Carter concurs in the above opinion:  "Because the same ink and the same kind of penstrokes appear in the illustrations and because the text forms an integral and unified part of many of the illustrations, it appears probable that the same person wrote the text and drew the illustrations." (1946 p.1)]