Biocodicology - A Deeper Dive

[LisaFaginDavis]

The earlier forensic tests on the VMS were done using slivers of blank parchment and very small bits of ink and pigment. Rubbing an eraser over every surface is an entirely different prospect. The time, risk, and expense would not be worth the very remote possibility of finding anything useful in terms of narrowing down the geographical origins of the manuscript. 

There is also the fact that people traveled during this period, often and expansively. IF human DNA were found AND it could be determined that it was approximately the same age as the manuscript AND there were some kind of database to compare the sample to AND a near-enough match were found in that database to provide some evidence about where that person came from (unlikely...you really need evidence like isotopes found in localizable water for that kind of result, which comes from minerals in bones and teeth, not DNA), you still could only conclude that a person who lived in the early fifteenth century who came from a very generalized location was associated with the manuscript. I just don't see how that's any help in terms of understanding the origins of the manuscript.