Speculative fraud hypothesis

[Mauro]

I think any Wilfrid related theory is fraught with the difficulty of the discovered corroborating letter. The quantity of parchment is also wholly improbable: if Wilfrid found this much untouched parchment it would honestly be worth more to sell it to other con-men as supplies, or produce smaller fakes inviting less attention. It could be that he had other reasons for crafting it the way it is, but the quality of the finished product doesn't support this.

And why he took the pain to unbind and then rearrange and rebind the manuscript, cutting out leaves, adding new quire marks... a lot of evidence better explained by a manuscript with a long history.

It also leaves open the big question of how the text was created, with all its baffling statistical properties.