Biocodicology - A Deeper Dive

[Koen G]

I'm not sure much could be proven definitively by the isolation of human DNA from unknown and un-sequenced people on the manuscript, or any ancient artifact for that matter. In fact, I could see this opening up the field to all sorts of new red herrings. 

That's what I was thinking as well. Even if a determination were conclusive (e.g. a DNA strain from a specific region in Europe), this still wouldn't allow us to eliminate much. It wouldn't even eliminate New World theories.

DNA from the vellum itself might be more interesting, especially since Ray Clemens does not oppose the idea. 

(I am now imagining a scenario in the distant future where all medieval herds are known. Every new manuscript that is sampled can be confidently matched to a certain lineage. Finally it is time to sample the VM and sequence its genome. With great anticipation, it is now compared to the database, which contains thousands of samples. It matches nothing.)