06-09-2016, 01:07 PM
Simply because this was an established medieval technique for preparing documents for scribal copying when no original was available.
The master scribe would engrave the page onto a wax tablet, and then the scribes would copy the tablet as if it were an original document. The tablet could then be warmed to erase the page, and the next page engraved.
The theory is that the encoding process was carried out onto the wax tablets, and proof-read. It was then copied onto the vellum.
The master scribe would engrave the page onto a wax tablet, and then the scribes would copy the tablet as if it were an original document. The tablet could then be warmed to erase the page, and the next page engraved.
The theory is that the encoding process was carried out onto the wax tablets, and proof-read. It was then copied onto the vellum.