(29-06-2018, 08:40 PM)davidjackson wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.Purely because I don't think many people realise the scales involved, here is a photo of the actual text compared to a modern printed book
From which you can see that the scribe not only had a steady hand (I certainly couldn't write that small, even with modern materials) and also had good eyesight.
I think we can assume it was a young man who wrote this
I've been SORT of assuming those who created the VMS were probably younger rather than older, for this exact reason but... in my family eyesight is good, they don't need reading glasses until their late 60s and 70s and most of them never need prescription glasses (distance vision is good even in late years) so... there always seem to be exceptions. The odds are that they are younger rather than older, however.
From what I can tell from reading about it, many of these kinds of projects seem to be primarily by men in their mid-20s to early 40s, although in northwest Europe quite a few of the illuminators were women.