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

[oshfdk]

Apparently, errors were made in encryption by the author. The curator made corrections in darker ink when checking

Let's zoom out a bit:

   

This word that shows clear obvious retracing/correction is the first word of this block of text. And it is very obviously retraced/touched up. Nowhere else in this block I can see anything similar. 

If this was retracing due to fading, either the rest of the text didn't fade at all, or it was retraced too perfectly leaving no sign of the faded writing. I don't think either is realistic.

If this is a correction, it's strange that the wrong text was written in faint ink, and it's also not clear what exactly was corrected. To me this looks like the characters were just retraced as they were, the only one that could be a proper correction is the plume of s in sdy. Could have been just edy in the faint ink.

So, I still think the most likely explanation here is some problem with the writing utensil or ink that made the first word very faint and the scribe decided to fix this immediately.

This example for me is the strongest argument against proposed retracing of the text in most other places in the MS, because it shows that a retracing would be very obvious. I agree with Stefan here.