(02-11-2025, 08:29 PM)R. Sale wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.Forgery requires content. Collective ninja investigations of the VMs illustrations have revealed several probable interpretations believed to date in the period 1400-1450. If the text is claimed to be 13th Century, this information is anachronistic.
If a forgery is meant to be an imitation of something else, why is the VMs so idiosyncratic? Why is Sagittarius a human crossbowman, and not the standard centaur with bow and arrow? <Etc.>
The secret is in the VMs cosmos. It is not only anachronistic; it is intentionally oxymoronic. That seems like a poor strategy for a forgery. The problem is in the recognition of historical detail, and that is the reader's problem, not the artist's.
Yes, we've gone over all that. The objection hasn't changed. And the explanation hasn't changed.