16-01-2025, 06:56 AM
I think it was usable for a few generations, that's why there is so much time missing between the carbon dating and clothing styles within and the first people known to have owned it. Since we don't know where it was before the known history, we don't know the circumstances of the original owners, it is all just part of the mystery. Was it found when new owners of a house cleared out the attic, library or closet? (We don't know what kind of house it would have been, maybe just a box or bag). Was it confiscated or stolen, and the actual owners really missed it afterwards? Was it sold because the only family left that it was handed down to was a cousin that wasn't privy to the secrets within, or just didn't care? Who knows.
Who would want it? I would, in any time, I imagine. The curious.
Who could afford to keep it? Anyone who could keep it dry and away from fire and pests I would imagine. With other things or not. For all we know it did stay in a private library for a century and a half or so, things are still discovered that way today.
Somebody knew the emperor would like it? Firstly, we don't really know that he ever even saw it, much less owned it. Even if he did, maybe someone thought it was encrypted to foil the government, reported as a suspicious document. Maybe the owners thought it should go as a gift, or as a prized historical document, but the accompanying letter was lost along the way. Many ways it could have gotten there. Might have moved from smaller authorities to larger ones over time.
People keep repeating about perfect script with no mistakes, but it's not perfect, several different versions of transliteration and/or parsings exist and likely there will be more versions to come. Perfect writing isn't misinterpreted in various ways. There are parts that seem to be overwritten, unknown if by the original makers or a later owner trying to recreate fading text. Plus, if one can't read it, how can one know whether there are mistakes or not? By the way, it reminds me of how I wrote the year I had a picky teacher who favoured neat handwriting. My real handwriting is completely different but i decided to write super small that year as it kept my writing neater. Perhaps it was the job of the youths in the group to sharpen their scribal talents by slowly and carefully transcribing paper crib notes.
Re similarities to other manuscripts, I don't know about that, maybe for the zodiac emblems, maybe for some of the cosmic stuff, maybe sometimes an overlap of style, the ephemeral stuff they were all exposed to if they saw a lot of manuscripts. But I think they had a uniqueness about themselves in the way they set out their information that doesn't come from another manuscript, or comes from many exposures to many manuscripts. Sometimes i think the script comes from mistakes in writings they have had to transcribe in their time, shared mnemonic ironies. It is why I was thinking one author until the five hands were identified, but I could see it being a more widespread endeavor, so I can accept that finding.
I think if you encrypt your entire manuscript, you are not looking for an audience, nor are you looking for status through its existence. You are trying to foil any such potential. I can see links, it all has to do with knowledge, but I doubt there are recipes per se.
Who would want it? I would, in any time, I imagine. The curious.
Who could afford to keep it? Anyone who could keep it dry and away from fire and pests I would imagine. With other things or not. For all we know it did stay in a private library for a century and a half or so, things are still discovered that way today.
Somebody knew the emperor would like it? Firstly, we don't really know that he ever even saw it, much less owned it. Even if he did, maybe someone thought it was encrypted to foil the government, reported as a suspicious document. Maybe the owners thought it should go as a gift, or as a prized historical document, but the accompanying letter was lost along the way. Many ways it could have gotten there. Might have moved from smaller authorities to larger ones over time.
People keep repeating about perfect script with no mistakes, but it's not perfect, several different versions of transliteration and/or parsings exist and likely there will be more versions to come. Perfect writing isn't misinterpreted in various ways. There are parts that seem to be overwritten, unknown if by the original makers or a later owner trying to recreate fading text. Plus, if one can't read it, how can one know whether there are mistakes or not? By the way, it reminds me of how I wrote the year I had a picky teacher who favoured neat handwriting. My real handwriting is completely different but i decided to write super small that year as it kept my writing neater. Perhaps it was the job of the youths in the group to sharpen their scribal talents by slowly and carefully transcribing paper crib notes.
Re similarities to other manuscripts, I don't know about that, maybe for the zodiac emblems, maybe for some of the cosmic stuff, maybe sometimes an overlap of style, the ephemeral stuff they were all exposed to if they saw a lot of manuscripts. But I think they had a uniqueness about themselves in the way they set out their information that doesn't come from another manuscript, or comes from many exposures to many manuscripts. Sometimes i think the script comes from mistakes in writings they have had to transcribe in their time, shared mnemonic ironies. It is why I was thinking one author until the five hands were identified, but I could see it being a more widespread endeavor, so I can accept that finding.
I think if you encrypt your entire manuscript, you are not looking for an audience, nor are you looking for status through its existence. You are trying to foil any such potential. I can see links, it all has to do with knowledge, but I doubt there are recipes per se.
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