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Re: VMs: Colour analysis of language pages??

Hi everyone,

At 13:16 02/04/2005 -0500, John Grove wrote:

Silly thought folks.

I still see a slight difference in the ink colouring between the A and B
languages, so I tried a little cross-hair colour-picker tool to see if it's
just my eyes or not.

There's lots of subtle variation going on in the ink, but I think it would really need a multi-spectral scan of quite a few pages to work out exactly what's what. Other issues may be more relevant, such as...

One page, I found quite interesting lately is f17v. It seems to
me that the scribe here is an apprentice... Many of the gallows are doubled
on the right side (no other letters are affected with this problem; however,
the 'n' stroke occasionally has a forked tongue). Again, I don't think this
represents a different character because the actual size of the page would
make it difficult to distinguish - I'm just looking at it as though this
particular page was written by someone trying out the script (especially the
gallows) for the first time.

If you look at the squashed-up top loop of the EVA <d> in the first word on the SID file, I think you'll see the faint echo of the original (un-emended) version to the top and left of it. It's on the outermost bifolio of a quire, so has probably had a reasonable amount of wear (and probably an unreasonable amount of emendation). Also: is it a cunningly forked tongue on the line 3 <n>, or a dodgy correction with a different quill? I suspect the latter - a multi-spectral scan should be able to tell us (etc)... :-/

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


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