Big red stain on f103r and retouching of text

[ReneZ]

There is one more comparison item in the MS, namely on the inside of the front cover.

These are definitely caused by the wax on the Marci letter, as a comparison of the two items shows: 
the locations and shapes match exactly, and even a tiny piece of wax was left on the cover, and is missing on the Marci letter.

Unfortunately, the online images of the inside cover do not show these. I would need to search for another image that shows them.

The odd thing is that these should not be there. This cover was added only in the 1800's (or 1700's).
At the time, there should also have been stuffing in the cover to make it stiffer, so if the Marci letter was glued on top of the paper pastedown on the inside cover, this would not have been the result.

The Marci letter was clearly folded to the size of the book. It could be that the letter was actually part of this padding. This would certainly be odd, but it might explain why Voynich found it only later (as he claims).

Just odd...