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

[Jorge_Stolfi]

If there are any examples from f70v1 or f71r, I can make channel split images from the MSIs. They are a bit higher resolution and much better at separating inks from the vellum.

I got most of the other images but the Beinecke library site went down before I got f47r.  But I did get f70v1 and f71r:

• f70v1: All text and labels seem to be in the "normal" ink, only perhaps darker than usual. There are large variations of stroke color in them but they all seem to be consistent with ink flow effects.  The word <otodal> at 12:00 on the middle text ring is darker than surrounding ones, so it may have been written out of sequence.  The darker strokes that could be attributed to the Retracer are on a few nymphs, with his/her characteristic "obsessions": hair and hat, breasts, body outline.  There are no obvious cases of original strokes peeking form under the dark ones, but some of the dark strokes on the nymph outlines (e. g. on the left breasts) transition abruptly from and to lighter strokes, as if they had precisely covered part of the latter.
  
  

• f71r: The Retracer apparently did very little on this page.  Only three of the nymphs have details in significantly darker ink: hair details on two, a "scalloped shower-cap" on the other.    Two glyphs in the middle text ring are somewhat darker than the surrounding ones:  an <l> in the word <lsheotey> and an isolated <o> next to the "notched square" delimiter.  Several other words appear to be retraced, and several glyphs are misshaped to some extent (4,5). However, these are all in "normal"-looking ink. Moreover, I believe that this page was one of the first to be produced by the original Scribe; so those misshaped glyphs and retracings could be due to him/her, no to the Retracer.