[split] Commissioned or not?

[Koen G]

When I was reading up on VM research a couple of years ago, I read some proposal (Nick's?) that the text may have been copied from prepared examples. This made me think of a scriptorium where the "proper" MS was made by professionals at a relatively quick pace. Such a scenario also comes to mind in Currier's mental image of two scribes (Hand A and B) sitting at a table and taking a sheet off the pile in turn.

Anyway, the impression I got was that an example existed (either a rough draft or something that existed earlier) and professional services were hired to fashion the current MS.