lelle > 05-03-2016, 08:04 PM
-JKP- > 05-03-2016, 11:46 PM
(05-03-2016, 08:04 PM)lelle Wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.It's almost an established fact that there are few visible textual corrections in the vms. Would a scribe be able to wipe ink off without leaving traces before drying on 15th century vellum? Like a time limited "undo" in today's terms. If yes then that might partially explain the small number of visible corrections.
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ReneZ > 06-03-2016, 02:56 AM
Quote:I remember I talked too much, but did I really say "the ms. does not include a single erasure or correction"; whatever I said, this is my present opinion: in all my experience of manuscripts I have never come across one in which corrections and erasures are so unobtrusive as they are in this ms. if it contains any. I have looked through it again - of course not every word, and have nothing to add to the one or two probable corrections I recorded c. 1936 when I worked with photostats.
In this connection I must add that we still have a few Voynich estate mss. (requiring additional research which I never found time for, before I attempt to sell them) which include one beautifully written text on fine vellum and some well and some poorly written manuscripts; and in none of them is there any difficulty in detecting corrections, erasures, deletions or transpositions.
Diane > 06-03-2016, 07:13 AM
Koen G > 06-03-2016, 10:02 AM
lelle > 06-03-2016, 10:47 PM
Wladimir D > 25-09-2016, 06:56 AM