Figures from McCrone Pigment Analysis?

[LisaFaginDavis]

It often seems to me that some Ninja contributors are desperately looking for material evidence that can't be easily explained and therefore "proves" that the manuscript is a modern forgery. But none of the testing - C14, material, MSI, XRF (coming soon) - suggests that the manuscript is anything other than an authentic 15th-century object. Any ancient object will collect foreign material. Think about the journey this object has had, at the very least from Prague to Rome (hundreds of years on a bookshelf) to London to New York to New Haven! Plus whatever journeys it went on before arriving in Prague. Think about the HUNDREDS of people who have handled it over the years. The liquid and food and candlewax and smoke it was exposed to. I've probably left epithelial cells behind. So has Rene, and anyone else who has handled it. Manuscripts accrete evidence over the centuries, and not all of it is going to be easily explicable. Nor does it need to be.

Prague to Rome - likely on horseback or a wagon. Rome to London - by ship. London to New York - by ship. New York to New Haven - a quick 2-hour journey, either in the back of Kraus' car or by train. That's a lot of environmental exposure and a lot of opportunity to accrete foreign material. 

It would be suspicious if there WASN'T any foreign material!