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

[Jorge_Stolfi]

the top left figure seems to have some sort of spike lower arm.

I agree with Koen, except that I believe that the leftmost (darker) of the two strokes that make the spike is an addition by a Retracer.  Who also added the right breast.  

My best guess is that the original figure did not have a left arm, and the rightmost (lighter) of those two strokes was the outline of her torso and belly. The Retracer mistook it for the left arm and added a new outline for the torso, which he assumed had been lost.

By the way, some people have suggested that deciphering the VMS may be anticlimactic because the contents will probably turn out to be just another load of boring medieval nonsense.  But look at the canopy above the second nymph from the top on the left margin.  The VMS may, among other things, provide zoologists with unique evidence for the extinct European pangolin.  ?

All the best, --stolfi