The Modern Forgery Hypothesis

[rikforto]

I think your dedication to the theory that it is an authentic 15th century creation has caused you and many others to lose track of how little hard (i.e. objective) evidence there actually is, and how much of the story depends on subjective suppositions, speculations, and scenarios that just seem "plausible".

There is some tension between citing the scattershot early theories towards a date to undermine the hard evidence for a 15th Century dating and narrows back to the hard evidence to provide plausibility for a 20th Century dating. I'm sure that this will generate a long response explaining how you square those two modes, and it's not entirely impossible to do, but the tension remains nonetheless