Re: VMs: Sideways text? Bleedthrough? Erased image?

["Larry Roux" <LRoux@xxxxxxx>]

I was thinking it was later too, but then I began to think that some of the characters seem to be incorporated into some of the drawings.  I'll keep looking.  

I don't know vellum from a hole in the head - could this page have been laid beneath other pages (not necessarily voy) as a base to catch bleed-through?  Was that done? 




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Larry Roux
Syracuse University
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>>> incoming@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx 08/31/03 08:38PM >>>
Hi Larry,

One other (possibly key) observation: if you look at the end of the tail of 
the 'g' of "augft" (though I should also say that you could read this just 
as well as "angst"), I think it should be fairly clear that the text you're 
talking about appears to cross *over* it (as well as through the 
down-stroke of the letter 'u').

Given that most commentators (myself included) think that the month names 
were a later addition, this would all seem to point to this mysterious 
extra layer of text being added later still, which would be rather more 
consistent with the idea of accidental contact ink transfer than with the 
idea of its being meaningful (if scrambled) text added at the time of the 
VMs' creation.

Cheers, .....Nick Pelling.....

PS: don't forget that we're talking about really tiny text here. :-o


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