The Modern Forgery Hypothesis

[Mauro]

I'm fairly certain that the co-ordinates for the sample on f. 116v were inadvertently reversed. If you measure 2.9 cm from the top and 6.9 cm from the left, you end up in the pox leber section.

Thank you Lisa. It's consistent with a 'mislabelling error or other mess-up' then, as imagined.

In this case, the sample should roughly be from the fourth word of the last line if I'm not mistaken ('pbren' or whatever that's supposed to be), not 'poxleber', but I readily grant 'poxleber' too uses the same ink. So what matters is if the ink of Sample 16, 'pbren/poxleber', matches the ink text, which is conspicuosly not said by McCrone, not even tentatively (while that's said clearly, for example, for the inks of text and illustrations).