23-12-2021, 08:22 PM
(This post was last modified: 23-12-2021, 08:23 PM by LisaFaginDavis.)
The manuscript is six hundred years old. Even if only two different humans handled it each year, that's more than 1,200 different opportunities for epithelial or other cells to be left behind (including mine!), and that doesn't include the multiple humans who helped to create it: slaughter and skin the calves, prepare the parchment, mix the ink, grind the pigment, write the text, paint the illustrations, organize the sheets and quires, sew the quires and attach them to the binding, etc.
And remember as well that it was common in the Middle Ages for scribes to take dictation from an "author" or content-creator. It's quite likely that if there was a single brain responsible for the content of the manuscript that s/he might never had touched it in a way that would be distinguishable from the scribes and artist(s).
The best places to look for cellular debris in any manuscript would be along the edges (where hands turn pages) and in the gutters (where there isn't much airflow).
And remember as well that it was common in the Middle Ages for scribes to take dictation from an "author" or content-creator. It's quite likely that if there was a single brain responsible for the content of the manuscript that s/he might never had touched it in a way that would be distinguishable from the scribes and artist(s).
The best places to look for cellular debris in any manuscript would be along the edges (where hands turn pages) and in the gutters (where there isn't much airflow).
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