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

[Jorge_Stolfi]

You can see that the corrections to the ‘4’ were made with the same ink each time.
This means that they were made by the same person, and fairly quickly afterwards. And not by a later writer retrospectively.

And that is what I wrote.  There was retracing of the orignal (Rt0) by the Restorer (Rt1), but it does not matter because, as you say,

• "... the sharp (not faded) strokes in the same light yellowish brown ink tell me that most of the tracing is Rt1.  In the first three qo of that second row, I cannot tell what the original head looked like, bit it  seems that the Rt1 retracer at first drew a q with small head, and then  corrected himself by drawing a bigger head."
  

But why is he doing this?

Again:

• "Aesthetics would be reason enough for why he decided to fix those small q heads. Do you think that he did so because small-head-q and big-head-q are different symbols?  If that was the case, there should be a good number of small-head qs throughout the manuscript.  Are there?"
  

All the best, --stolfi