[split] VMS - a forgery?

[bunny]

There is nothing that suggests to me it is factually a C15th manuscript in content and the language would be more modern.  Of all the languages people have looked at in modern times they do seem to find contemporaneous word structure, again something I will be looking at in my hypothesis.

Bunny

I'm quite amazed to see someone say that.

The penwork, the zodiac-symbol shapes, the vellum and the way it was processed and stitched (they started using paper rather than parchment in the late 1400s for many documents of this kind), the pigments, the subject matter, the Latin abbreviation shapes, the text style of the marginalia, the style of drawing (which changed quite substantially by the Renaissance), and on and on, all suggest probable 15th century origin.

All this was apparent even before it was radio-carbon dated.

Really? (Amazed, that is.)

There are people who also think it is a modern forgery, and others who site astronomy of Tycho and Kepler in the folios, none of which agree with the apparent C15th scenario or authorship dating.  No one disagrees that it has the hallmarks of the C15th dating or that it was written on apparent C15th velum according to what we know of the C14 dating, but the signals are all very mixed, it fits many different things but not exactly, and the attached letter has the hallmark of bearing a copied signature.  I am almost amazed that you don't know of these research findings and alternative views.

Bunny