12-08-2023, 01:31 PM
I have 2 broad overarching ideas, neither of which is particularly original.
A summary of 1 of them.
(OG = Original of the text and drawings contained in the VMS).
Lone savant makes OG on bits of paper or whatever.
Lone savant becomes very ill.
Family of lone savant commission some scribes to draw OG all up on vellum (thus creating the VMS).
Family present VMS to lone savant as gift and/or for remembrance.
Later VMS becomes separated from family.
Later VMS gets painted and rebound.
Later marginalia and overwriting etc as additions by various owners.
The text has meaning only to the person who wrote it.
A summary of 1 of them.
(OG = Original of the text and drawings contained in the VMS).
Lone savant makes OG on bits of paper or whatever.
Lone savant becomes very ill.
Family of lone savant commission some scribes to draw OG all up on vellum (thus creating the VMS).
Family present VMS to lone savant as gift and/or for remembrance.
Later VMS becomes separated from family.
Later VMS gets painted and rebound.
Later marginalia and overwriting etc as additions by various owners.
The text has meaning only to the person who wrote it.