[split] Jorge's Retracer Thread: darker ink, retracing of text and drawings

[Jorge_Stolfi]

You can't blame it all on the restoration either, because then the restorer was a bungler and had no idea what he was doing.

Again, the Restorer(s) obviously did not know the alphabet, and the Author must have been long gone to Higher Spheres.   And the first Restorer was recruited precisely because many parts of the book had become almost unreadable, or worse. 

Even so, the first Restorer did a good job overall.  Thus, for most meaningful analyses, this General Retracing Hypothesis can be ignored.  The restoration added some errors -- switching some r for s or vice-versa, changing some Sh into Ch and some Ch into ee, etc.  But any meaningful analysis must allow for a certain percentage of errors by the Author, by the original Scribe, and by the Transcribers.  (My readings disagree with Rene's at the rate of one glyph every ~10-20 lines, even though we both use the same high-resolution 2014 images.) 

All the best, --jorge