Expert Opinion

[Aga Tentakulus]

   

You write "He found a pile of old parchment, cut it up to make a fake book, made the ink, and went wild."
If that were the case, you should be able to see it even with old parchment. The cut edges would then appear new and clean, but this is not the case.

Worn does not mean that the pages in the centre are dirty, but the edges. Especially the corners.
If you look at an old psalter, it is mostly the corners. That's where most of the spit sticks.
The VM also has this characteristic. Simply signs of use.
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So, according to your theory, he must have reworked it. There are no coincidences.

For me, the traces of use come from the time of Tepenec (and whatever their names were), when the book passed through hundreds of hands to be studied and examined.

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