Re: VMs: f1r UV...?

["jan" <hurychj@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hello  Nick and all,

I absolutely agree, even some  original "photostats", as Voynich called them, would be  probably better than what we have today, unless they aged too. Let's not forget it is almost 100 years after his experiments. As far as I can judge, the scans  show three kinds  of misuse:
1) traces of liquid, probably solvent
2) some vapor (or other chemical)  effects like discoloration
3) deliberate scratches, almost in parallel

Theffects  of the ultraviolet light cannot be discounted but cannot be proven either. 
As for those scratches, they might have been caused when somebody tried to erase the name the first time and he might have even use some liquid. Apparently very amateurish job.

As for chemical effects, I do not know what Voynich used, but so called "blueprint" picture  - if his "photostat" was using similar method  - is developed by ammonia vapor and as far as I remember from fifties, somewhere there was also the high voltage source for ultraviolet light, with ozone as a byproduct. 

Needless to say, the fist copies would be able to show more and would be certainly very valuable. Also, I always  wondered why  Voynich used photostat, while the photography  was already of very good quality in his time. But then again, he would never discover the hidden signature - or so  he says.

Jan

P.S. Strangely,  neither Marci nor Baresh mentioned  the erased  Horcizky's name - or any erasure, for that matter -  but the scratches and liquid spot are still clearly visible, even  without ultralight.
  
  
=======  You wrote:  
>Hi everyone,
>
>Having looked at Jan's website, I recently tried to enhance the Tepenec 
>signature at the bottom of f1r for myself - FWIW, I found that I got the 
>"best" results when I set the R & G values to zero, and contrast enhanced 
>the B channel as far as it would go. But it was still pretty awful - a UV 
>scan ought to be 10x better. :-(
>
>Then I remembered reading that the Brumbaughs (father and son) examined f1r 
>under UV light to look at the cipher workings on the right hand side of the 
>page. Did that lead to any UV scans of f1r? If so, does anyone have a copy? 
>I don't remember seeing one in Brumbaugh (Senior)'s book, but I must admit 
>to having read that a very long time ago (it's all a bit hazy).
>
>Seems like an obvious question, but I thought I'd throw it open to the list 
>all the same. :-o
>
>Cheers, .....Nick Pelling.....
>
>
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