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

[oshfdk]

Those are perfectly normal features of quill strokes. 

I have some experience preparing quills and writing with quills. I don't think these split strokes normally happen when properly using a good quill with normal quality ink. And generally these split strokes either not happen at all in the Voynich MS, or happen rarely and to a smaller extent. If you believe their extent is normal on this folio, could you find similar examples on the lefthand side page f43v? I can't find any there, certainly not as pronounced as on f44r. So to me it appears that some writing problems happened on You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. for some reason simultaneously in all shades of ink.