25-08-2016, 06:07 PM
It isn't fascinating reading.
I offered $100.00 (US) to her in my first letter to answer whether the text in the VMS was written by any known English author/writer, maybe one with some connection to York. She wrote back the above info. I paid the money (in my email I offered to pay it before the info was sent). I didn't expect to pay for a long involved answer and didn't get one. I thought I got my money's worth, maybe more, even though it wasn't what I was hoping to read.
She is an expert of medieval paleography and internationally known.
I'm not.
Other than her expression of a continuing interest in the VMS, she didn't say much else, none of interest to you.
I chose her simply because of her job title and the blurb that was written about her, a publication of hers that I read and the fact that she is based in York, England, with which I believe the author of the VMS had some connection.
It is hard eliciting information from true experts. They don't seem to mind working for relative peanuts, though, if they think their information is truly valued. I've tried it several times, always gotten swift results and been happy to spend the money if it means I don't have to do the work involved all by myself with less encompassing or universally accepted results.
Sometimes the answers aren't what I was hoping for, but they still save me a lot of time and labor getting them the hard way.
Thank you.
Don of Tallahassee
I offered $100.00 (US) to her in my first letter to answer whether the text in the VMS was written by any known English author/writer, maybe one with some connection to York. She wrote back the above info. I paid the money (in my email I offered to pay it before the info was sent). I didn't expect to pay for a long involved answer and didn't get one. I thought I got my money's worth, maybe more, even though it wasn't what I was hoping to read.
She is an expert of medieval paleography and internationally known.
I'm not.
Other than her expression of a continuing interest in the VMS, she didn't say much else, none of interest to you.
I chose her simply because of her job title and the blurb that was written about her, a publication of hers that I read and the fact that she is based in York, England, with which I believe the author of the VMS had some connection.
It is hard eliciting information from true experts. They don't seem to mind working for relative peanuts, though, if they think their information is truly valued. I've tried it several times, always gotten swift results and been happy to spend the money if it means I don't have to do the work involved all by myself with less encompassing or universally accepted results.
Sometimes the answers aren't what I was hoping for, but they still save me a lot of time and labor getting them the hard way.
Thank you.
Don of Tallahassee