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Y'd think if you had access to 1400 "paper", the effort of making your own gall ink for your forgery. It ain't hard. Maybe the galls aren't common in Norway? O
by njharman 5y ago
Y'd think if you had access to 1400 "paper", the effort of making your own gall ink for your forgery. It ain't hard. Maybe the galls aren't common in Norway?
Otoh the deception lasted 100yrs.
- jcranmer 5y ago> Otoh the deception lasted 100yrs. Not really. Pretty much from the inception, the academic community was strongly skeptical of its authenticity. While Yale has only recently admitted that it's a forgery, that's probably due in large part to reluctance to admit that they spent a lot of money on a pretty clear forgery.