(21-08-2025, 01:03 AM)Jorge_Stolfi wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.Some of the fantastic features of the Herbal plants are probably the result of interventions by later owners, as they wrongly "restored" some details of the outline and painted some parts with the wrong colors.
I hope it doesn't appear as if I'm stalking your posts about retracing. I'm just genuinely interested in arguments for/against retracing. Since my primary area of interest is deciphering (under assumption that this is a cipher), possible later alterations to the text by someone how wasn't familiar with the encoding scheme are of great concern.
So, looking at these images I see what seems to me like another strong piece of evidence against retracing. If you look at the tiny short straight strokes filling the center of the "flower", denoting seeds or some other feature, they appear to be of all possible levels of darkness from the very faint to darker than the petals with no obvious sharp separation. So to me it looks like these strokes just faded differently or were inked differently, producing a great variation in darkness. Same as what I believe happened to most of other strokes in the MS - something to do with the ink quality.