[split] Did the VM go straight from cerebellum to vellum?

[nablator]

And the writing is too fluid for frequent pauses

I see evidence of frequent pauses and hesitation: the scribes didn't know where the spaces should be any more than we do. The baseline is not only wobbly it deviates wildly from the horizontal every few glyphs. Crazy spaces and baseline jumps would not happen if the scribes were only copying a text.