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RE: [split] Darker ink, retracing of text and drawings - Jorge_Stolfi - 06-10-2025
(06-10-2025, 09:03 AM)Aga Tentakulus wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.Why does this happen?
It's because of the quill. ... This tells me that the writer did not understand not only the ink and colour, but also the writing tool.
I am no expert on the matter, but I know quite a bit about how quills and iron-gall were prepared. And I have quite a bit of experience with illustration by hand, with many different media including steel pen and India ink. And the original Scribe surely did know his craft. (Except that I am convinced that he did not use iron-gall ink, in spite of what McCrone said. The possible reasons can be discussed elsewhere.)
One cannot dismiss all those ink weight anomalies and mangled glyphs with a blanket claim of "expected ink flow variation by an unskilled scribe". For most of the cases that I labeled in those clips, this explanation simply does not work. Ink flow cannot turn an s into a d or an y into an o.
It would be like "explaining" cuneiform writing as pigeons walking over wet clay: it could be stretched to work for some glyphs here and there, but not for the ensemble...
All the best, --jorge
RE: [split] Darker ink, retracing of text and drawings - Aga Tentakulus - 06-10-2025
RE: [split] Darker ink, retracing of text and drawings - Jorge_Stolfi - 06-10-2025
RE: [split] Darker ink, retracing of text and drawings - Jorge_Stolfi - 06-10-2025
RE: [split] Darker ink, retracing of text and drawings - oshfdk - 07-10-2025
RE: [split] Darker ink, retracing of text and drawings - Jorge_Stolfi - 09-10-2025
RE: [split] Darker ink, retracing of text and drawings - oshfdk - 09-10-2025
RE: [split] Darker ink, retracing of text and drawings - Jorge_Stolfi - 09-10-2025
RE: [split] Darker ink, retracing of text and drawings - Jorge_Stolfi - 09-10-2025
RE: [split] Darker ink, retracing of text and drawings - Mauro - 09-10-2025