Part of Zodiac was added later?

[Koen G]

I think something was lost in translation here. You probably meant to ask if five individuals wrote the VM, but it sounds like you are only talking about men (so males and not women). That is why R. Sale said that Christine de Pizan is an example of a woman who wrote manuscripts, but she has no direct connection to the VM, don't worry about it


Yes, five different people wrote the VM text. Lisa determined this by comparing their handwriting, just like paleographers compare the handwriting in normal manuscripts. You can see in the table at the end of her paper which scribe wrote which page. And this image shows the glyphs she compared: