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

[Stefan Wirtz_2]

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What is certain is that the font was not finished with the old ink. This only came later with the new, darker ink. Whether the ink was new, or just stirred or thickened, I leave open.
What is certain is that the words were finished afterwards. I assume that the other corrections were also made at the same time.
The same ink can also be found on other pages in the text.

The whole "retracing" theory has a bit of a problem: under the best-possible enlargements/zooms is nothing of the original words visible anymore.
I doubt that, especially in comparison to neighboring, faded, but still readable words those under retracing disappeared so completly / faded to zero, that not the smallest line can be seen anymore.
The retrace lining is very thin (and black), so I am sure it would not cover completely the original writing.

Apart from that, under some of the Nymphs' "tunings" there are the older lines still visible, which wasn't not exciting enough for the retracer.
But this all cannot give secure proof whether those reworks were done 20 minutes, 2 days or 200 years after the first writing of affected pages.