(10-10-2026, 06:27 AM)cencei wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.If the analysis starts with the assumption (not: result) that all samples came from a single work, it should probably be re-done without that assumption, right? If the VMS was first assembled as stack of loose singulions, it very well could have been a multigenerational family/clan project, or a work that was extended by several authors ("hands") over the course of decades.
I'm not an expert in any relevant field, but one thing that would cast doubt over a multi-generation timescale for me is the general uniformity of it all.
The artwork looks stylistically consistent throughout (and consistently poor), at least to my untutored eye. It appears there were several scribes, not just one who added all the text some time later. But the number is still disputed, and it seems their writing styles are so similar it needs subject expertise to tell them apart. The evidence that it isn't all in a single hand seems strong, but the close similarity suggests a shorter timescale to me.
If what we have is indeed multi-generational, I'd expect to see significantly wider stylistic variation. And I mean on a large scale that layfolk could see, not minor variations.