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

[Jorge_Stolfi]

I now have an idea

Tweaking that idea about that bizarre f.  I think that originally there was an isolated r  in that gap. 

That is, the original text was ... ChtChy r Char ...  The body of the r probably was where the darker of the two "shins" of the f is now, between points (A) and (B).  The plume of the r went through ( C), curled up along the right "thigh" until a bit below the horizontal part of the f, turned 90 degrees at (D), and followed the horizontal arm to the end (E).
   
Here it is again, with the conjectured r in dotted magenta, with the estimated baseline and topline in blue.
   
The rest of the previous post still stand: I guess that, by the time the Retracer(s) did their job, the r had all but faded away.  They got confused by the ghost of the dark band from f47v  (why should I be the only VMS reader with Superior Pareidolia?) , and "restored" the r as that bizarre "sitting f". 

The (J) and (K) on the first image are the offset print from the flower on f46v, and the o that I think was invented by a Retracer, confused by that print.

All the best, --jorge