Crossbowman

[Koen G]

Nick Pelling has an interesting theory that the VM pages were engraved onto wax tablets before being inked onto the vellum - this could be a hint of that process.

That's interesting, David. Do you happen to know why specifically he considered wax tablets? I performed a search for "wax" on his site, but from what I gather there, the important aspect is the copying. He sees signs that the text was copied from somewhere (for example because of the relatively few corrections), but for some reason he always mentions copies from wax tablets instead of copies from existing (vellum?) documents.