Is the VM an autograph or copy?

[-JKP-]

A family project I could agree, but what level of family we should have to be able to produce VMS? Not a plain common family I would think.

Plain common families didn't know how to read or write. I can't remember the exact figure for the early 15th century, but I think about 85% of the population (or maybe more) was illiterate.


I even read that many of the illustrators could not read or write (I don't know how reliable the source was, but there was quite a bit of division of labor in the manuscript studios and scriptoria).

The printing press changed this. A manuscript could easily cost a year's wages (for a professional person, not a wealthy person). The printing press created mass market books that were accessible to more people but this revolution was a century after the VMS radio-carbon dating.