Reality checks - considering Lauber

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Koen: you have more faith in radiocarbon dating than the radiocarbon dating people themselves have. It is a technique whose results can easily be skewed (particularly forward) by confounding local factors - not by a whole century, sure, but certainly enough to make Lauber's workshop much more of a direct candidate than you seem to think. (And I understand the technical arguments for and against.) Which isn't to say that what we see in the VMs is a direct copy of a Lauber workshop original, but rather that we can't necessarily use the radiocarbon dating to eliminate copying 'routes' between mss over such a short timescale. Understanding Lauber better should really be our collective starting point here.

As far as the Lauber literature itself goes (which is more what Diane was asking about), we have a number of (admittedly not cheap) books which need to be raked over, e.g. Ulrike Spyra etc. My book budget has only just recovered from a historical-cipher-related splurge earlier this year, so her main book on Lauber should arrive here shortly.

In the meantime, here's a paper that Koen mentioned previously, if you haven't already seen it (along with the other uni-heidelberg webpages on Lauber):
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