29-09-2025, 12:01 AM
Naughty, naughty retracer!
Take for example the nymph on the outer band of f72r2 (Gemini) at ~10:30.
This is my guess at how the Original Scribe drew her:
This is my guess at what she looked like a couple centuries later, when the owner decided to restore the manuscript:
And this is how she looks like now:
To be fair, I believe that there were at least two rounds of retracing: the first one very careful and faithful to the original, but who may have left some parts un-retraced. And later came another Retracer who, not satisfied with retracing faded parts, also added several details of his own, just for the fun of it.
All the best, --jorge
Take for example the nymph on the outer band of f72r2 (Gemini) at ~10:30.
This is my guess at how the Original Scribe drew her:
This is my guess at what she looked like a couple centuries later, when the owner decided to restore the manuscript:
And this is how she looks like now:
To be fair, I believe that there were at least two rounds of retracing: the first one very careful and faithful to the original, but who may have left some parts un-retraced. And later came another Retracer who, not satisfied with retracing faded parts, also added several details of his own, just for the fun of it.
All the best, --jorge