02-09-2025, 06:51 PM
(This post was last modified: 02-09-2025, 06:51 PM by Jorge_Stolfi.)
(02-09-2025, 08:51 AM)Koen G wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.I must say that I've become less and less convinced by visions of Pellingesque phantom parades of plonkers "fixing" each others' writings. "Oh no, someone messed up their marginal note, let me fix it".
I understand the reluctance, since there is no middle option: either there was no retracing, or a large fraction of the text (near 100% on some pages) was carefully but still visibly retraced, a long time after it was written -- because the original ink was fading towards invisibility.
I agree that one should not accept this second theory without substantial evidence.
I am working on it...
(Meanwhile, consider that theory as one possible explanation for why no paleographer has been able to identify the language of f116v, or read a single word with certainty...)
All the best, --jorge