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

[oshfdk]

Well, the smallest tendrils in the clips you posted are about as wide overall as a single stroke of the VMS clips.  To me, it looks like the Book of Hours artist had very good control of the pen, to less than 0.1 mm accuracy.

The artist couldn't perfectly merge two lines together with a gap or step that would not be noticeable at this magnification. Even with strokes 3 times as wide an offset of 1/3 of the stroke width would be very easy to see. Also, the task of the original artist of the Book of Hours was much easier - when the artist had to merge two strokes, he could have merged at any convenient point along one axis (further or earlier down the line) so only one axis required high precision, while tracing a tight curve in the Voynich MS would require matching both dimensions at the same time. 

But even if the artist was able to achieve the same precision as in the Book of Hours, this is what the result would look like, probably.

   

There should be many examples of similar or larger (since this is a harder task) misalignment of strokes on every page of the Voynich MS, if MRT was correct. And even that would require a true craftsman of high skill willing to dedicate months of work to the restoration of the Voynich MS. No restoration works are mentioned in the provenance of the MS. When would all of this retracement happen, between 1500 and 1600?