Steven Avery
Administrator
The simplest technique for making a new manuscript look old is simply writing with a faded, faltering ink. For the skilled calligraphist who knows his inks and writing techniques, easy-peasy.
Voila! … 1,000 and more years old. Even if a year old.
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You would prefer not to have the ink reinforced. Because then you would have to explain why the reinforced ink never similarly faded in its conjectured 1,000 years. Oops. (The glib diversion response is to just focus on the “faded” ink. And ignore the super-ink reinforcement.)
However, once the manuscript is out of your hands, you might get this overwriting done by just about anybody.
However, even worse would be if some pages were done with normal dark ink, not faded at all. The ink will not wear much in 20 or 180 years. Your ink-trick will be busted.
And this is what we have on Sinaiticus,
Voila! … 1,000 and more years old. Even if a year old.
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You would prefer not to have the ink reinforced. Because then you would have to explain why the reinforced ink never similarly faded in its conjectured 1,000 years. Oops. (The glib diversion response is to just focus on the “faded” ink. And ignore the super-ink reinforcement.)
However, once the manuscript is out of your hands, you might get this overwriting done by just about anybody.
However, even worse would be if some pages were done with normal dark ink, not faded at all. The ink will not wear much in 20 or 180 years. Your ink-trick will be busted.
And this is what we have on Sinaiticus,
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