Morten St George Theory

[Morten St. George]

This question is specifically for Morten St George (please don't jump in and answer it for him).
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MSG, this text snippet is from a late 14th, early 15th-century manuscript with the same subject matter as the VMS and is placed next to a drawing. There is a large drawing on each page and labels similar to this by each one. It is the same script style as folio 116v. The original labels are added in red and these are underneath, and were probably added in the early to mid-15th century.

Without cheating and asking someone to help you, tell me what this says. It's not difficult if you are familiar with 15th-century script:

Is that unnamed 14th / 15th century manuscript something that the authors of a herbal encyclopedia in the 16th century could have seen or been familiar with?

The author of the marginalia reveals the same fanaticism and approach to the recipes that I found elsewhere. Thus, I'm confident I know who wrote the VMS marginalia but I think it best to avoid that topic as it would only sidetrack us from our VMS investigations. But I will say that he lived from 1553 to 1625 which would pretty much rule out any possibility of authorship of the marginalia in the 15th century.

There is nothing wrong with your discovery of German influence in the marginalia. The author of the marginalia wrote two classics in that language: Faustbuch (1587) and Fama Fraternitatis (1614), so it cannot be surprising that he would resort to that language for purposes of deception and disguise. For example, the German "mich" can also allude to Michel Nostradamus, under whose name the VMS recipes were published.

What I would like you to do is imagine, just for moment, that I am correct in claiming that the dot above mur is just one of the stray dots on that page. Without seeing a dot there, would you really read that word as nim?

As previously cited from a translation, the author of the marginalia, in his Latin writings, refers to a botanical book that ends with a wall. On the last page of the VMS your nim is the only realistic possibility for that wall. From this point of view, the word has to be mur. Moreover, the "portas" in the second line of page 116v and "vix" in the third line of page 116v have connections with the same passage where we find the "Mur". Moreover, the Latin book that tells us about the wall begins with a reference to the location of that mur.