[Conference] Voynich Zoom CFP

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Professor Richard Hark shows low levels of titanium in 120 samples from 50 Medieval manuscripts. But in one or two samples, the levels of titanium rise above that "baseline" of a 0.5 XRF Signal. My questions have been:

1) Where, on that chart, would the amounts of titanium found by Barabe in the Voynich manuscript, fall? Would they also be in Hark's baseline? Would they be in the line above? Would they be higher?

2) Is it possible that those higher containing samples WERE the actual Voynich?

With respect to question 2, the short answer would appear to be "no", as the chart in your post is showing "XRF raw signal intensity", and the ink analysis on the Voynich Mss. used EDS (page 2 of the report under "Preparation") rather than XRF (You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. describes the differences between the two techniques).

With respect to question 1, you'd have to figure out how to transform the results of the EDS test (on Sample 17, say, which the summary table specifically calls out as including Titanium as shown in Figure 17C) into an equivalent estimated XRF raw signal intensity or vice versa.