05-10-2025, 09:46 PM
(05-10-2025, 09:30 PM)quimqu wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.I think this is no retracer. For me, it is a sort of correction or a plus added to make things more complicated. These additions seem to be written afterwards, maybe to make the text look even more awkward than it looked before.
I'm not sure these were written afterwards. For example, the last croplet in your post has a k with a very dark right half and a semi-faded left half. If the right half was added afterwards, this would mean there had been an incomplete Voynich glyph initially. And there is absolutely no trace of any previous right half under the quite thin dark right leg of this k. To me this suggests mostly continuous writing with some ink irregularity. And most likely the same happened with d's. I don't think these were e's changed to d's, I think these were proper d's from the very beginning.
Interestingly, both the right half of k and the top/right part of d involve a specific right-up-left-down movement of the quill. Maybe it's this particular movement that for some reason caused much denser ink to flow from the nib.