09-03-2026, 11:23 PM
(This post was last modified: 09-03-2026, 11:29 PM by RobGea.
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This is the way i see it.
Biggest issue : No provenance.
Carbon date the vellum -- but that only shows the vellum is hopefully in the right date range.
Aparently Chemical analysis can elucidate some of the seal wax components.[1]
Carbon14 dating can be applied to seal wax, possibly. [1]
It could be one of the copies that Barschius had made showing indeed that Barchius et al owned it at one time,
and if it exists maybe the others do to.
But it moves us no further on in regards to understanding the vms,
and only fractionally further on in regards to its history.
If real, it just confirms the Marci-Barschius-Kircher et al link.
--corollary : that would be another hurdle for the highly athletic MFH theory to jump through.
We would have the additional information of an involved person with a seal of possibly A-G or G-A,
--probably initial letters of a name.
If real, would it amount to a nice find but not much more than that ?
[1] New results with regard to the Flora bust controversy: radiocarbon dating suggests nineteenth century origin
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Biggest issue : No provenance.
Carbon date the vellum -- but that only shows the vellum is hopefully in the right date range.
Aparently Chemical analysis can elucidate some of the seal wax components.[1]
Carbon14 dating can be applied to seal wax, possibly. [1]
It could be one of the copies that Barschius had made showing indeed that Barchius et al owned it at one time,
and if it exists maybe the others do to.
But it moves us no further on in regards to understanding the vms,
and only fractionally further on in regards to its history.
If real, it just confirms the Marci-Barschius-Kircher et al link.
--corollary : that would be another hurdle for the highly athletic MFH theory to jump through.
We would have the additional information of an involved person with a seal of possibly A-G or G-A,
--probably initial letters of a name.
If real, would it amount to a nice find but not much more than that ?
[1] New results with regard to the Flora bust controversy: radiocarbon dating suggests nineteenth century origin
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