[Talk] New Information on the early history of Beinecke 408?

[Mark Knowles]

If one document says something like "Rudolf bought a manuscript with undecipherable writing from a Venetian merchant", one could arguably claim that more has been learned about the origin.

Without wishing to get bogged down in semantics, I would say that if one document says something like "Rudolf bought a manuscript with undecipherable writing from a Venetian merchant, who said that it had been written by his great great grandfather" then we would have a clear link to the origin of the manuscript, however otherwise we may be a bit closer to the origin, but we are still quite a long way off. Although, any step closer is much better than none.