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This stretches Occams Razor somewhat. It could be, but it becomes less likely, as century-old stores of vellum would be required. Particularly as back then, no
by Nursie 6y ago
This stretches Occams Razor somewhat. It could be, but it becomes less likely, as century-old stores of vellum would be required.
Particularly as back then, nobody would have been anticipating carbon dating.
- sandworm101 6y agoNot carbon dating per se, but hoaxers would have an understanding of old v. new materials. Materials then were also not cheap. It would not have been unusual for someone to use an old bit of found blank parchment. They certainly would not have thrown it away unused.
- Teever 6y agoFrom my understanding material like vellum could be scarce and and as such someone could have reused a piece of vellum simply out of necessity with no motive to deceive.
- Nursie 6y agoSure, they could have - it was not cheap or easy to come by, but until there's a particular reason to think that happened in this case, it seems to be speculation.
- matthewdgreen 6y agoIt seems like a whole lot of material, all of which came from the same time period. Would have been a lucky find to find essentially a whole book's worth of the stuff in one place.
- mumblemumble 6y agoThis is true, but scholars can tell if a manuscript is a palimpsest, and they seem to be agreed that Voynich is not one.