Biocodicology - A Deeper Dive

[Mark Knowles]

By the way, any such DNA would be much more likely to come from the Scribes or from the workers who manufactured the vellum, who handled it much more extensively than the Author may have done before the writing.

That we don't know. It is true that if the author had very little contact with the manuscript and merely directed some other people to work on it then locating the author's DNA in the manuscript would be very difficult. However, I personally doubt the author was so far removed from the manuscript. Nevertheless, identifying a scribe's DNA would be very useful and a big step towards identifying the author. Even better if one has identified multiple scribes. Likewise identifying workers who manufactured the vellum would be of use.