12-01-2017, 11:35 PM
Quote:Even if you can find examples of unused parchment, that will never negate the fact that most was used shortly after manufacture. The Voynich manuscript was found before carbon dating was thing, so nobody would have thought to 'fake' a date with old parchment. And what is the possibility of a bizarre manuscript such as the Voynich just "happening" to be written on old parchment?
That's not about faking but just about finding old parchment and why-not-write an MS on it. There are always fans of old school, in any time. Actually there were people who did not like the advent of printing. As one famous example, Trithemius did not like printing. I don't know if he prefered paper or parchment though.
But yes, all this would look if not unrealistic, but superfluous.