New images: Marci letter wax

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Hi, everyone,

Colin Layfield, Claire Bowern, and I spent a few hours with the Voynich Manuscript yesterday at the Beinecke. At Rene's request, I took some pictures comparing the stains inside the front cover with the wax stains on the Marci letter. They clearly allign in terms of rough size and distance from one another, although the shapes aren't the same, and it's difficult to see how the letter could have been folded and laid into the manuscript in such a way as to leave those stains. So I don't think we can say FOR SURE that those stains are related to the Marci letter's wax, although they certainly MIGHT be. Images here, including a close-up of the watermark:
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There are creases of several different folding patterns visible in the Marci letter, but because it has been carefully flattened it is not possible to see exactly how the letter was folded.

You're calling these stains but it's hard to tell from the images - on the VM, are these stains or are they spots where the manuscript has stuck to something and been scraped or torn off in that shape?

If they are stains, why does the red wax look pink where it thins, spreads soaks into the paper, but on the VM the stains are a pale yellow?