01-08-2025, 07:01 PM
For contrast to Post #3, an alternate potential scenario. The VMs author was born several years prior to 1400. Perhaps they would have been in their 20s in the 1420s. Clearly, however, they have the knowledge to make the "sleeve" connection, which is one of the most specific temporal examples.
You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.
The author may have planned and written the illustrations and text in advance of the parchment work, we don't know that. The production of the parts of the original ms. may have occurred over years, perhaps more than a decade. All parchment produced between 1404 and 1438 is basically equivalent in the C-14 results. VMs production may have taken some time.
Handwriting can change over time or due to injury of the hand. Vocabulary will change with various topics and languages.
If the VMs was produced before 1450, it could have been hidden away by its creator for a decade or more, then taken out and retouched by the original creator, adding the month names, and even restringing the whole thing. Who knows?
Are there reasons why this scenario is not possible?
You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.
The author may have planned and written the illustrations and text in advance of the parchment work, we don't know that. The production of the parts of the original ms. may have occurred over years, perhaps more than a decade. All parchment produced between 1404 and 1438 is basically equivalent in the C-14 results. VMs production may have taken some time.
Handwriting can change over time or due to injury of the hand. Vocabulary will change with various topics and languages.
If the VMs was produced before 1450, it could have been hidden away by its creator for a decade or more, then taken out and retouched by the original creator, adding the month names, and even restringing the whole thing. Who knows?
Are there reasons why this scenario is not possible?