J. Janick interpretations of the VMS...

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I guess R.Sale does not put the carbon dating under suspision, but he speaks about the MS having been written on old stock vellum. As I recall, there are counter-arguments to that in terms of style, in particular the marginalia style, aren't there?

The pigments have also been tested for their ingredients and they are consistent with approx. 15th-century estimate.

And yes, the marginalia (both styles) are somewhere between 1390 and 1510 (I have lots of data to support this, I just haven't had a chance to write it up yet) and I doubt that they were faked.