16-05-2021, 09:35 PM
I believe the problem with those expert datings may have been the same as we are discussing here in relation to carbon dating: the experts dating the VMS from the "single object" perspective, while in fact they'd rather date various portions thereof.
I say "may have been" because I'm not sure if it's really been thus in all the cases. In fact, it is not uncommon that a single-bound manuscript contains writings even from different centuries, so I would be surprised if all aforementioned experts tried to impose a "single" date on the whole VMS.
I say "may have been" because I'm not sure if it's really been thus in all the cases. In fact, it is not uncommon that a single-bound manuscript contains writings even from different centuries, so I would be surprised if all aforementioned experts tried to impose a "single" date on the whole VMS.