12-02-2024, 12:42 PM
(12-02-2024, 11:58 AM)nablator wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.(12-02-2024, 09:42 AM)ReneZ wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.(12-02-2024, 12:34 AM)boldfrontiers wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.This person is selling blank restoration paper from the 1700s. I should know, I purchased a number of them. That's over 200 years old. So I would say it's not only possible to procure blank vellum that old, but quite feasible if you really want to, and are willing to pay.
Why would he???
Regarding price and availability, blank vellum (real vellum, not the cheap paper imitation) is one thing and much larger sheets (for foldouts) are a different thing.
I'm not sure I follow, and why you feel the need to include "real vellum, not the cheap paper imitation" in between parentheses. Is that in reference to the person selling 200+ year old blank vellum on Ebay? Are you accusing him of selling cheap paper imitation? I don't know if you realize it, but that's a serious accusation to make. I think the burden would be on you to prove that, as I otherwise see the seller has a 99.6% positive rating and 8544 sales at the time of this writing.
I don't really understand why you differentiate between sizes of vellum sheets either. From what I've seen, the Voynich Manuscript is actually quite small. Yes, some foldout pages are larger. So what?