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

[Jorge_Stolfi]

Actually I now have an idea about that bizarre f.  Note the greenish smudge just to the left of it.  That is a leaf on the other side of the folio (f47v).  The green paint on that leaf is heavier than usual, and a streak of dark material seems to have oozed out of the paint and collected along the left and bottom edge of the painted area.  (Not as badly as in the dark blue areas on the flowers above, but perhaps the same substance.  We know that the Painter is rather cavalier about cleaning the brush when switching colors...)

That dark stripe on f47v seems to be precisely opposite to that bizarre f on f47r.  So perhaps the Retracer mistook the ghost of that dark stripe for a faded  glyph, and "restored" it... 

All the best, --jorge