[Other] Course in Cologne focusing on VMS

[ReneZ]

But it is not  the termius aq for the manuscript, only for the death date of the parchment animal - which is a very different thing.
Now I think the German underneath describes this,

It does indeed

but it still isn't the terminus aq. According to the timeline, the terminus aq would be .. 1608*? When the provenance starts, as the manuscript could have been penned at any time between 1404 and it's appearance at sale in 1608.

(*sale date not know - this is only the earliest date at which de Tepenec's signature could have been inscribed).

Strictly speaking, that should be 1622, the time of his death. It could have been added in 1622 but not after.

I have heard conservators state that such parchment was not stored for any amount of time but prepared to be used. I would keep in mind that details of medieval book production are known from contemporary sources, which most of us would not be aware of. Me most certainly included.

It also helps us that the MS has these fold-out pages, because that makes it even more unlikely that it is an old source of unused parchment.