Morten St George Theory

[Morten St. George]

Sadly, my most important theories never came up for discussion. These concern the VMS encryption. I theorize that

1. the red-star passages of the recipes section encrypt 161 verses of prophetic text. The underlying language is sixth-century Latin. One distinction with classical Latin would be an expanded vocabulary with more words borrowed from Greek.

Morten St George,
I have already shown to you that your count is incorrect.
There are 163 red stars, not 161, AND keep in mind that we are missing four pages (f109r&v, 110r&v) which puts the original total even higher, probably around 210 based on the average 7 per page.

During the course of my preparations for decoding work, I encountered another argument against your red star contentions. It comes from the last page of the VMS, page 116v, shown here:



Do you see the red ink on the right side of this image? It's smeared over and on top of marginalia. My logic runs as follows: smeared ink implies fresh ink, therefore it has to be more recent than the marginalia, that is, the red ink (ie. the red coloring and dots on top of the stars) could also be marginalia. And if the red dots are marginalia (not made by the original authors of the VMS), then they can most certainly be indicating the passages that were decoded, translated, and published, per my theory.

In support of your point of view, there are claims of proof (based on the ink) that the marginalia on the last page is not marginalia but was made by the original authors of the VMS. Personally, I find that hard to believe: after such enormous effort to make the VMS as flawless as possible, why ruin it all by scribbling in meaningless doodles? In any case I have my own "proof" (or let's say, strong evidence) that the page 116v marginalia was written closer to 1600 than 1420.

Unlike parchment, ink cannot be carbon-dated so, presumably, claims that the original author wrote the scribbles on page 116v come from the McCrone report. I have it here: on Table 1 we find for test 16 out of 20: "Folio 116v Black ink from text"; Sample Locations: Vertical: "6.9 cm from top"; Horizontal: "2.9 cm from left", and after that, uniquely for the 20 tests, we see a mysterious "no photograph recorded." 

I'm reading that the VMS measures 23.5 cm by 16.2 cm, which, by my calculations, would mean that the McCrone ink sample was taken from the middle of nowhere, well below the writing at the top of page 116v. Am I missing something?