07-05-2020, 02:27 PM
Thanks!
The point that those are different persons has the important implication. Instead of one person creating a "book of secret knowledge" all in his secrecy, we then have a group of people, and potentially a traveling group (the choice of vellum vs paper, the absence of binding...), sharing and practicing the secret technique of writing...
The point that those are different persons has the important implication. Instead of one person creating a "book of secret knowledge" all in his secrecy, we then have a group of people, and potentially a traveling group (the choice of vellum vs paper, the absence of binding...), sharing and practicing the secret technique of writing...