Re: VMs: Re: Re: Re: humanist [was; Some thoughts etc]

[Dennis <tsalagi@xxxxxxxx>]

DANA SCOTT wrote:
> 
> "easily" suggest multiple scribes. BTW, I have read that the artwork could
> be knocked off very quickly by an expert from the unknown era in question.
> Modern day experts could probably "draw" each plant in less than 30 minutes
> with the coloring in coming later. Disney and his troupe of cartoonists
> comes to mind.

	Now this is quite interesting!  I've always read that
it's quite impossible to write something in an earlier
form of a language, for instance a writer now trying to
forge something in Shakespearean English, that an
expert cannot spot.  Have we really considered this? 
We've always heard the VMs drawings are idiosyncratic
for medieval and Renaissance periods.  Has anyone ever
challenged them as forgeries on this basis?  

Dennis
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