21-05-2026, 03:40 AM
(18-05-2026, 11:03 AM)dashstofsk wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.However the flow of the writing suggests that the writer did not pause after each word to think of what ought to come next.
You are assuming that the VMS was written directly "from brain to vellum". But that is extremely unlikely.
The Author surely composed the text as a draft on paper, which then was clean-copied to vellum. So the flow of writing does not tell how quickly the text was composed.
(And many clues, as well as common sense, suggest that the copying to vellum was done by a Scribe who did not understand the text.
All the best, --stolfi