Re: VMs: Re: Re: Inks and retouching

["GC" <gc-@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Nick,

That's good, keep me jumping!  Actually, it is probably my imagination that
you and I DO have access to the same book - I always have to remember that I
measure in inches and you centimeters - NAW, I was gonna say sumpun, but
John Grove has wisely advised against such outbursts of 'colour'!  :-)

Speaking of 'colour', the correct English spelling or I stand to be duly
corrected,  if I had a place at the moment to place the image, I'd do so
immediately and discuss this directly.  I refer you to the drawing at the
bottom left of f84r.  In this pool there are two general rows of bathing
women.  I refer you to the top row, sixth (and last) woman on the right.
Look between her legs - well, a little lower, just above where her feet
would be.  Tell me that's not writing.  When I first saw it I thought it
said "Sulpher", but that would be silly?  As with other text, I saw a brown
tinge to the image in this area, and used John Grove's color tool in PSP-7
to enhance.  I haven't got the knack of his tool as yet, but there is
something here that was definitely written faintly in brown before it was
covered over with blue writing.  Pull back from the "zoom" position for a
moment and take in all the rest of the blue strokes in the pool.

This is not a stroke pattern, but an intended pattern.  I was being
conservative by saying "apparent Voynichese", since it's not as clear as I'd
like.  If I hadn't been such an arse-hole with everyone else's wild ideas,
I'd go for "sulfer" here, and this interpretation would be plausible given
what we know about medieval 'healing baths', but the moment I whip it out,
it's gonna get stepped on, as you've just proven, so I'll stick with
"apparent Voynichese", thank you. :-)

GC

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Nick Pelling" <nickpelling@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <vms-list@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, August 02, 2004 12:40 PM
Subject: Re: VMs: Re: Re: Inks and retouching


> Hi GC,
>
> At 09:15 02/08/2004 -0600, GC wrote:
> >There are also many very detailed areas that were carefully
> >colored, and in one instance, apparent Voynich writing added in blue to
the
> >pool on lower left f84r in blue paint/ink.
>
> 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).
>
> FWIW, I think the red paint in the balneo section is probably original -
on
> f84r, there's at least one woman with red hair (in the lower left pool, on
> the right), and the middle pool has a curious red "bucket"... make of all
> that what you will. :-)
>
> Cheers, .....Nick Pelling.....
>
>
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