Morten St George Theory

[Morten St. George]

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It surprises me that Wikipedia is continuing to insinuate that the VMS was composed in northern Italy. With this unfounded contention Wikipedia is doing severe harm to anyone trying to uncover the true origins of the VMS. I might cancel my donation next year  

A substantial portion of the Wikipedia information on the VMS is taken from the Beinecke site and from the blogs of people on this forum (some of it is copied almost word-for-word from people's blogs).

Some of the information on the Beinecke site (including the statement about where the VMS originated) has been there for years and hasn't been updated. They're probably not motivated to update it until new information that can be verified with a high degree of certainty is put forward and that's not easy to do with the VMS.

Last year I saw a flick about the VMS that led me to conclude that the claims for composition in northern Italy are entirely based on the design of some of the defenses seen on the VMS depiction of a castle. If that is all there is, I would consider such evidence as too meager and flimsy for confidently determining place of authorship.

As far as I am aware, most medieval castles in northern Italy are still extant and no one has been able to identify any of them with the VMS castle. It is my understanding that the Cathar castles in southwestern France are also still extant though only as ruins, but these ruins likewise cannot be connected with the VMS castle.

The most notable medieval castle that is no longer extant, not even as ruins, is the Cathar fortress at Montségur, which must immediately make it a prime candidate for being the VMS castle.

Yesterday, I posted in this thread new evidence that the VMS castle is in fact the Cathar fortress of Montségur. And, obviously, if the VMS depicts Montségur in southwestern France, the argument for composition of the VMS in northern Italy collapses.