There is a widely circulating assertion that there are no corrections in the VMS. Are there no really? It seems to me that this assertion is largely based on the fact that we simply don't see them in the scans.
However, the technique back then was not that the scribe striked the incorrect letter through and wrote the correct one nearby; incorrect letters were just scraped out (for the parchment properties allow so). So if something is scraped out and then another character is inscribed on top of that, we will probably not notice the correction, at least in the scan.
It would be interesting to know the views on this from people who saw the VMS in its original. Are there really no traces of text having been scraped out?
I attach hereto a curious instance (highlighted by myself) of EVA r in f57r. Don't know if it was scraped out or simply faded with time.
However, the technique back then was not that the scribe striked the incorrect letter through and wrote the correct one nearby; incorrect letters were just scraped out (for the parchment properties allow so). So if something is scraped out and then another character is inscribed on top of that, we will probably not notice the correction, at least in the scan.
It would be interesting to know the views on this from people who saw the VMS in its original. Are there really no traces of text having been scraped out?
I attach hereto a curious instance (highlighted by myself) of EVA r in f57r. Don't know if it was scraped out or simply faded with time.