Biocodicology - A Deeper Dive

[pfeaster]

1) I would suggest taking/looking for a location in the manuscript to take a sample(s) from where only the scribe left his/her DNA. 

I remember once spotting a strand of hair stuck to the page of an early modern printed book -- maybe seventeenth century -- by the ink in such a way that it had clearly acted as a mask during printing between the type and the paper.  My thought at the time was that the hair probably belonged to the printer or someone close to him and had probably been newly shed in the year the book was printed.  Even if not, though, it must have been present specifically at the moment of printing to have interacted with the ink as it did.

I don't suppose that specific scenario would have arisen with the VM.  But is this a reasonable example of the *category* of evidence you're hoping to find here?