Quote:Therefore, those scribes almost surely copied from a draft on paper, that had the text and sketches of the figures in some uncertain degree of detail.
Sorry for picking at words but do you believe both that it was made in early 1400s and that they had access to paper?
It seems to me that paper already existed at that time but it was a new thing, not widely known.
If they had paper they would write VM on paper. Or was calf skin considered to be more "prestigious"?

