My Theory: RITE — Ritual Instrument of Textual Esoterica

[Koen G]

What can we say if estimates of the vellum cost alone differ by several others of magnitude? And how can we even begin to guess how much time it took to write each page if we don't know how easy or arduous of a task it was to produce the text? Flow of consciousness is one extreme, copying is the next quickest, then a light encoding, then a complex code. It could be minutes to hours to days for a single page. So many variables one can toggle at a whim.