(25-09-2022, 05:00 PM)RobGea wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.So the above still stands.
I would assume that the reasons to buy a manuscript in the late Middle Ages were different than in the 20th century. The unique selling point of the VMS is the fact that it cannot be read (yet). This may have been the reason for Kraus to buy the VMS. His efforts to resell the manuscript for a profit failed (he finally donated it to Yale University in 1969). I think that in the late Middle Ages the practical use of a manuscript was most important. Creating a hoax in the hope of selling it for (a lot of) money in time would have been a pretty daring, not to say pointless, project. The "collector's item" practically immediately becomes a shelf warmer. I just can't figure out the target group for a possible, timely sale.