Re: VMs: Goat vs. sheep

[Jacques Guy <jguy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

11/10/2004 6:39:49 AM, Pamela Richards <spirlhelix@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>We know
>this guy was at least exposed to vellum, which is
>sheepskin . . . right?

Not necessarily. See what a Google search will find you
for "vellum goat"

For instance:

"http://palimpsest.stanford.edu/don/dt/dt1568.html";

and the next URL:

"http://www.bookmakerscatalog.com/catalog/leather/vellum.htm";

Yes, even nowadays you can buy vellum, calf, sheep, or goat!

>So how does this hypothesis run?  This person who
>spoke a language which no one understood was brought
>to Europe where he saw European hairstyles, then
>locked up in a room without windows so he could not
>see sheep and given vellum and ink. . . ?

My theory (in which I don't believe much) is: 
and Italian (more probably Venitian than Sicilian)
wrote it in an obscure language which he had learnt
during his travels. Just like I, if I wanted to
write a secret journal, would write it in Sakao,
in an alphabet derived from medieval Latin cursive.



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