Re: Re: VMs: Re: Re: Inks and retouching

[elvogt@xxxxxxxxxxx]

Zitat von Jan <hurychj@xxxxxxxxx>:

> Hello Nick,  
> ======= At 2004-08-02, 19:40:00 you wrote: =======
> 
> >Unless you're looking at different pictures from me, I think this is 
> >probably just an hallucination, much like the apparent numbers in the 
> >pharma jars (which are probably just a sequence of tiny imperfect circles, 
> >added [as elsewhere] just for decoration).
> 
> Well look here:   http://hurontaria.baf.cz/numbers.htm and tell me those are
> not numbers and the blue 
> color is not quite visible  effort to hide them.  
> 
> Jan
> 
>

These are not numbers; it's just a series of commas, pretty much ornamental 
like in the rings above and below.

The paint is also not a "visible effort to hide them". If somebody wanted to 
delete the "numbers", why not just scratch them off the vellum, as was usually 
done...?

Cheers,

   Elmar

P.S.: It's very interesting for me to note how, since the advent of the new 
Beinecke images, discussion on the list has shifted from direct codebreaking 
attempts to peripheral arguments about the history of the manuscript, 
rebindings of the book etc. Actually, quite the opposite of what I'd expected...





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