12-12-2025, 06:54 AM
More psychedelic hallucinations about f8r:
This clip spans the left end of lines 13-15 of page f8r. Like most everywhere, there are signs of at least three layers of retracing: the original traces (Rt0), the general restoration pass (Rt1), and scattered retouching (Rt2).
This false-color image was created by combining three monochromatic images from the Lazarus 2010 project -- MB940IR_012, MB700IR_008, MB365UV_007 -- as the red, green, and blue channels, respectively, of an RGB image. No processing was done other than scaling all samples in each channel affinely to the full range 0-1.
The broad light and dark horizontal bands are warps of the vellum, exposed by the oblique illumination. The grainy blue-green texture in the background could be some substance or surface finish feature that absorbs 940 nm infrared but not 700 nm infrared or 365 nm ultraviolet. But another explanation is that the direction of the light was different in the 940 nm image, in which case the blue grains are shadows of bumps and dimples in the vellum.
(A) The wide-footed t is mostly original, but some bits of it, as well as the c and h on each foot, are Rt1.
(J) This original y was restored as an a by Rt1, but fortunately the original tail is still visible.
(Q) This glyph was retraced by Rt2, who presumably added the spurious dash below and to the right of it. The central area is light red on this image, suggesting a possible Rt1 glyph underneath. (R ) The top of this d is Rt2, the bottom is Rt1. The top loop is filled with Rt1. (S) This o is Rt2 but some Rt1 is visible in the SW side of the hole. The bump at the top is probably an Rt1 or Rt2 addition. (T) Morphologically, this glyph should have been an y, in the common word ychey. The unusual vertical tail tricked Rt1 into "restoring" it as a rounded q, ligated to the next Ch, producing the invalid(?) word qHhey. Then Rt2 further emphasized this wrong interpretation.
This clip spans the left end of lines 13-15 of page f8r. Like most everywhere, there are signs of at least three layers of retracing: the original traces (Rt0), the general restoration pass (Rt1), and scattered retouching (Rt2).
This false-color image was created by combining three monochromatic images from the Lazarus 2010 project -- MB940IR_012, MB700IR_008, MB365UV_007 -- as the red, green, and blue channels, respectively, of an RGB image. No processing was done other than scaling all samples in each channel affinely to the full range 0-1.
The broad light and dark horizontal bands are warps of the vellum, exposed by the oblique illumination. The grainy blue-green texture in the background could be some substance or surface finish feature that absorbs 940 nm infrared but not 700 nm infrared or 365 nm ultraviolet. But another explanation is that the direction of the light was different in the 940 nm image, in which case the blue grains are shadows of bumps and dimples in the vellum.
(A) The wide-footed t is mostly original, but some bits of it, as well as the c and h on each foot, are Rt1.
(J) This original y was restored as an a by Rt1, but fortunately the original tail is still visible.
(Q) This glyph was retraced by Rt2, who presumably added the spurious dash below and to the right of it. The central area is light red on this image, suggesting a possible Rt1 glyph underneath. (R ) The top of this d is Rt2, the bottom is Rt1. The top loop is filled with Rt1. (S) This o is Rt2 but some Rt1 is visible in the SW side of the hole. The bump at the top is probably an Rt1 or Rt2 addition. (T) Morphologically, this glyph should have been an y, in the common word ychey. The unusual vertical tail tricked Rt1 into "restoring" it as a rounded q, ligated to the next Ch, producing the invalid(?) word qHhey. Then Rt2 further emphasized this wrong interpretation.