Hello all,

Has anyone ever made anything of these little faded things on f1r? I've seen a lot of discussion about the red things, but not about these.
Looks like an arabic alif, the word pig and half a pitchfork, so it must be important. 


   

I think the 'arabic alif' is the number one, as in page number. It is in the same place as the number 2 on the page behind it. 

As to the other two circled items, i can see the similarities to your names for them, 'pig' also looks like 'big' to me now that you point it out. But i have trouble believing that was put there on purpose. The pitchfork thing also reminds me of a rodent paw print.

(21-01-2022, 03:40 PM)ddskbnbn Wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.Hello all,
Has anyone ever made anything of these little faded things on f1r? I've seen a lot of discussion about the red things, but not about these.
Looks like an arabic alif, the word pig and half a pitchfork, so it must be important. 

I thought rather about pic or bic, the tail of the supposed g seems to be just a part of the stain edges.

I was also thinking 'bio', as i thought the same as Searcher about the g

Some time ago, I interested to find any hidden pictures and notes in the VMs and I found. Now I rejected some of them, doubt in some, but still think that some notes really are. There is always a risk of pareidolia or presence of digital noice. 
As for me, I supposed that there are the abbreviated word pictus (pic., picture) and the bird-glyph next to it. Although I'm not sure, of course. The combination "AR" in the very corner seems to me more credible. 
   

With those pics it looks like "Big"

There was a discussion on that some years ago, I remember someone suggested that to be a drawing of a donkey, or something like that

The only way any of this is ever going to be legible is if the entire page were to be photographed using multi-spectral imagery (not just the Tinapius signature at the bottom, and not just ultra-violet). Unfortunately that isn't going to be possible any time soon. Due to COVID, the Beinecke remains closed to visitors beyond the Yale community, and the imaging lab has a skeleton staff and a huge backlog.