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

[oshfdk]

I think the main difference between my assessment and yours can be easily demonstrated with the image below.

This is from f1r, which is the first page in the present order, and certainly an important page judging by the colored embellished glyphs.

The image below is from the start of a line and shows what I believe to be the original scribe running out of ink and retracing a few glyphs (iin and at least some part of Sh). As you can see d is ok, then the original strokes get progressively more faint.

From my point of view what you see here is highly precise state of the art very careful retracing (this is an important page) performed by the same scribe and probably using the same quill in the same writing session as when the first underlying strokes were done. This is in practice as good as a retracing can get. It's unlikely any other hand (scribe) using a different quill would get a better result. It's absolutely improbable that another scribe would be able to get a better result consistently on 200+ pages. To me this is a ground truth, challenging it requires extraordinary evidence, no amount of ink density variation would do.