Discussion of "A possible generating algorithm of the Voynich manuscript"

[Jorge_Stolfi]

I think McCrone determined that the VMS ink was most likely added close to the time of the radiocarbon dating (I'm going by memory, so it might be a good idea to double-check).

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IIRC, McCrone is the guy who proved that the Vinland map was a forgery.  (Was it kept at Beinecke, or some other library?) 

I skimmed through his report on the VMS.  I found it puzzling that he describes the ink as having black particles.  Presumably those are the black spots one sees in the high-res image that Rene posted the other day.  I have never actually seen a manuscript with iron-gall ink on vellum, but from what I read I expected to see the black stuff as a film firmly stuck to the vellum, not as discrete particles.  I wonder...

And then, IIRC, the report says that the X-ray fluorescence failed to detect iron in the ink used to write the quire marks. And speculates that it must have been a "low-iron iron-gall ink".  Which to me sounds like a "low-grape red wine".  I wonder more...

All the best, --jorge

PS. At the time of the Vinland saga, I was impressed by the forensics breakthrough.  But now, after looking closely at the VMS scans, I wonder even more... Could it be that, like the VMS, the map was genuine, but some later owner, seeing that it was faded, decided to "restore" it by re-tracing it with modern ink?