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

[Bluetoes101]

This d is really weird (in your example). You can see the normal d under/over the the dash, the sharpness and colour of the dash don't look a match for "normal Voynich"

Indeed, I don't think that dash is writing at all.  It looks like a bit of dirt that got stuck to the vellum. 

May be like the bits of red skin in the big red stain of f102v1:

My conjecture is that the stain is from goulash or some other sauce with red peppers, and those bits are the skins of the peppers...
By the way, the corresponding stain on the facing page includes a clear example of retracing to restore damaged text:


All the best, --stolfi

I was going to say it looks too straight for dirt/stain, but if it were something chopped (skins of peppers) that might make sense. 
[Edit] - Actually I changed my mind, I forgot you can see the loop of d through the dash. So I guess I'm back to "it's far too angular for dirt/stain". 

The interesting thing about the text in the stain is that it looks like the ink was applied while the vellum was still wet. Is there any half convincing way this all might be caused just by the spill? 
A weird thing is if it was a "repair", the ink looks to have been applied to a still wet surface, but then the spill transferred to the other page and not the ink.. it's hard to imagine they did the spill, closed the page, went and got some ink and a pen, repaired, then waited to dry before closing again.. and selectively repaired.. there's some clear (but faded) glyphs they miss. 

Confusing..