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

[Jorge_Stolfi]

I appreciate the write up. As for the supposed Q1 "?" symbol, I believe this is caused by the smudged/soaked stain from two EVA l symbols on 116r.

Prompted by @eggyk's post above, I added another image to the HTML report on the "Big Wipe-off" theory for page f116v. 

As @eggyk pointed out, on the multispectral images of You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. one can see faint traces of the writing on the other side of the folio, f116r. However, to the Repairman, these bleedthrough or seethrough smudges should have been clearly distinguishable from residues of the lost writing. There is no indication that the "repaired" text was influenced by the bleedthrough.  Except perhaps that, as @eggyk suggested, the big question mark at the end of the aror Sheey line may have been induced by seethrough from the two l glyphs on line f116r.6, in soiin ol lCheedy.

       
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    Text from the top of You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. (yellow), mirrored and scaled so as to match its position on an ulraviolet-light image (MB365UV_007) of f116v. The blue spots are holes in the vellum.

Conversely, the spill on You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. did not seem to have had any effect on the text of f116r. We must conclude that the vellum itself was impervious to water.

There may have been a small amount of water entering from the top between You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. and You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. along a pronounced furrow of f116, near the middle of lines 1 to 3. That water may have caused a few glyphs to become fainter. However there is no sign of wiping on either You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. or f116r, and the text must have remained perfectly sharp and legible once the water dried up.
There is however some superficial insect damage ("wormscraping") on You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. along that furrow, besides all the worm holes visible on the You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. side.  I hope to discuss these points later, in a separate post.

All the best, stolfi