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

[oshfdk]

You seem to have a very low notion of the skill and patience of Medieval scribes. Again, look at the artistic manuscripts, like the Book of Hours of the Duc de Strawberry, and estimate the accuracy with which the artist-scribes put down their paint and ink strokes. 

Can do. I have found different records of the dimensions for the Book of Hours in question, some catalogues list it quite larger than the others, the smallest I've seen is:

Book of Hours 23.8 x 17 cm
Voynich MS 23.5 cm × 16.2 cm

Which makes it just a tad taller than the Voynich MS, but I will just match the height of the sheets exactly. So, in the examples below the  crops from the Book of Hours maybe should even be a bit larger than they are. Note that we are comparing VMS to an exquisite commissioned artwork performed by renowned artists probably using the best available tools and materials. This truly should be state of the art and the highest quality the money could get you.

First thing I noticed is how bad the paint work looks when zoomed in to the same scale as we use when examining the Voynich MS. Not as bad as in the Voynich MS, but still quite below what I would expect. The lines in the Book of Hours are much thinner and probably made with a different kind of tool. However, the mismatches, gaps, unsteady curves are quite obvious at this scale and I don't think the artist(s) who made this Book of Hours would qualify for the retracing job in the Voynich MS.

What do you think?