Release of the Radiocarbon Report & Link

[Anton]

Furthermore, the uncertainty in a date of any sample is far greater than the typical duration of creating a book.

Rene, the point that Rich raises in this thread is that it's not 100% certain that the whole "project" was to create a single book. This is in the vein of what Wladimir suggested recently that the VMS was not designed to be a single, let's say, "opus", but rather a set of more or less disjoint manuscripts collated by a later owner into the thing which we now consider a uniform "book".