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

[eggyk]

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.

By the way, great caution needs to be used when overlaying the entire width of the page. The parchment seems to have been in a slightly different orientation between different scans (how flat or bumpy (or stretched?) it was in certain areas). As far as I can tell, there is no way to overlay the entire page in a way that lines up with everything perfectly. 

Just to keep in mind when discussing which marks may have caused what, as these slight differences of 0.5mm or less make a difference. It's better to align a smaller area when looking for a specific mark as it's less likely that these factors will cause deviations. For example, here are our overlays compared to the multispectral scan for the end of "gasmich". Note how a tiny alignment difference actually makes quite a large difference. 

   

I'm not trying to dismiss your overlay as "incorrect" or to claim mine as "correct" by the way, as neither is the case. There are also many areas in yours which overlay slightly better than in mine.