Collection of Manuscripts

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The shroud of Turin, You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view., is also interesting.

It was venerated as the burial shroud of Jesus, but in 1988 it was carbon dated to 1260–1390 AD. You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. is about the analysis of DNA fragments which, because of contamination, could not add much to the picture.

EDIT: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. by Hugh Farey argues against the idea that it is a forgery. The author thinks that it was likely created for a liturgical purpose.

There are passages that (together with analysis by McCrone and the crucial carbon dating) show some parallel with the VMS, e.g.

It may also be that the very uniqueness of the cloth and its image, which seems so clearly not to fall into any particular research category, is the reason for it being sidelined from academic study. It may be an altar-cloth, liturgical vestment, table cloth, theatrical prop or even a shroud, but as it does not resemble any such things that we know of, specialist scholars may say, “Well, it doesn’t look like one of mine,” and leave it unexamined. I would like them to reconsider. A unique object should not be neglected on that basis alone, but considered carefully as a possible ‘outlier’ to some more recognised artistic tradition.