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[Jorge_Stolfi]

There are several glyphs on this page other than oror Sheey that look more like Voynichese than Latin letters: the unusual lopsided d, a backward slanted i in "vix", the ch*r before "cere", and even the third "a" of "oladabad". It's not as if they were unaware that Voynichese letters are different than Latin letters, so replacing some of them with Latin letters is weird.

On the contrary.  Imagine that the person trying to restore the writing was a newbie, someone who had spent zero time studying it.  He would have no reason to think that the text is either all Latin Letters or all Voynichese letters, and would have no idea of what these are supposed to look like.  So, when he could only see a few bits of strokes, he naturally guessed a Latin letter that might fit them.

If these were more visible than others, not entirely erased, we would still be able to make out some of them that were not 100% perfectly overwritten. But there is no trace of erased writing in the MSI of f116v

The resolution of those MSI images is still too low to show such traces.  Here is a much higher magnification of a couple of gyphs on f47r, line 9, near the start (McCrone Report image 6a):

   

The smudges (A1), (A2), (A3) is what remains of the original ink of those glyphs.  As one can see on this image, the parts of the k that were retraced were not "100% perfectly overwritten", but the smudges that remained are invisible on the Beinecke 2014 scans and would be invisible on  the MSI scans of that page, if it had been imaged.

The original bits of the You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. text that survived the spill must have been even fainter, and they must have been all retraced.  To see the bits of those bits that were missed by the retracer would require images with at least the same resolution as the one above.

All the best, --stolfi