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[Jorge_Stolfi]

Koen I just watched your new YouTube video about f116v.

You did a good job at summarizing the frustration of all the Voynichologists (including me) who have spent uncountably many hours poring at that page.  (As you said, no bit of Medieval parchment has received so much attention, ever.)

But there is one important recent discovery that you missed.  In the UV image (only) of You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. one can clearly see the outline (A) of a big water spill that covered most of the page, starting at the top:

   

There is also a fairly sharp horizontal boundary (B) between a darker area at the top, including all the marginalia, and the rest of the page.  It could be an area that was rubbed with chemicals (like the bottom of f1r), or that was rubbed with a wet rag to clean the vellum or erase whatever was written there.

I leave to you and others to consider the implications of these stains.  I have my own theory, but will rather not state it here now...

All the best, --stolfi