07-07-2025, 09:10 AM
(07-07-2025, 08:54 AM)Koen G wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.Anyone positing a post-1450 hoax is ignoring the evidence.
Which evidence specifically? Suppose, I was a skilled forger in the 1500s and I used authentic century old vellum in an attempt to recreate a centuries old MS. If I was in the books business, I would have seen hundreds of these old manuscripts, so I don't think any arguments related to styles, clothes, drawing techniques are relevant at all. The forger would have seen many more examples of these compared to us now. The only thing that was carbon dated is the vellum itself, as far as I know, and the vellum would be from the early 1400s.
Maybe it makes sense to split the thread, if there is going to be some non-trivial discussion about p(hoax).