Morten St George Theory

[Morten St. George]

I've been reading more of D'Imperio's book and came across an interesting statement:

"In the upper right corner, there is a faint, scribbled symbol like a shield or a crude fleur de lys, criss-crossed with lines."

This is what she is referring to:



Curiously, 17 x 5 brings us to page 85, whose foldout displays an unambiguous fleur de lys.

Shakespeare, on the title page of his botanical encyclopedia (published 1597), portrays himself standing on a pedestal "criss-crossed with lines." This is his pedestal, upside down:



Notice any connection with D'Imperio's concept of a shield / fleur de lys?

In a prior post, I demonstrated how the numbers on Shakespeare's shield add up to 85, again pointing to the VMS fleur de lys.

The discovery of Shakespeare's portrait and pedestal (by a renown historian, not by me) made international news a few years ago.

The VMS shield is accompanied with marginalia, possibly written by Shakespeare himself, which begins as follows:



I read this as meilhor altar, meaning better to alter, but I am not sure of the words that follow. Does anyone have a better reading on this?

NOTE: By MSG Theory, due to Shakespeare's extensive familiarity with the VMS recipes (expressed throughout his writings), he is believed to have led the decoding effort. He is also the likely author of the three dots discovered by Koen on page 107r.