Morten St George Theory

[Morten St. George]

page 111r = 8 red stars

Not 9 ?
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By the way, why do you insist on 161, exactly? It's not as if there were only 39 quatrains in the Centuries of Nostradamus that could be linked somehow to some lines in Shakespeare's and Marlowe's  works... some common vocabulary, yes, but what else should be expected from such a large corpus? So where did the idea of 161 prophetic verses come from, 35 years ago, somewhere else?

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"Les corrélations sont apparemment sans fin." (The correlations are apparently endless.)

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39 prophecies of the Kabbalah identified in Nostradamus

Thanks. As I was saying, mathematics was never one of my strong points.

I can't find my notes from a few years ago, but I now think I excluded the second shaded star on page 104r, viewing it as a blackened-out (deleted) red star. In that section of the recipes they were oscillating between red star paragraphs (the original Latin) and white star commentaries (possibly in a vernacular language) so seeing two consecutive red stars certainly suggests an error.

Please have a close look at the second shaded star (the third star from the top) on page 104r and carefully compare it with the other shaded stars on that page. Do you agree that it could be a blackened-out red star?

So we are potentially back to a total of 161. Regardless, your outstanding ability to count stars is forcing me to dramatically alter my theories. I now have to increase the number of recipe pages from 23 to 26. The first six pages of the recipes (this is subject to change) would be as follows:

1. page 57v. No stars. Just decoding keys.

2. page 58v. One white star. Probably an introduction to the text of recipes.

3. page 108r. Five full-color red stars with commentaries.

4. page 58r. Three white star commentaries on last red star of page 108r.

5. page 103r. Seven full-color red stars with commentaries.

6. page 104r. Four full-color red stars (excluding the blackened star) with commentaries, followed by changeover from full color to red dots for two stars.

OBSERVATIONS / COMMENTS

a. There are no full-color red stars other than the ones on the three indicated pages. The full-color stars add up to 16, that is, four complete recipes of four lines each.

b. The white stars on the top of pages 58r and 58v have their inner black dots whitened-out just like the white stars on pages 103r to 116r, reinforcing the conclusion that those pages belong in the recipe section.

c. There are no pages missing from the recipes section. The gap in the numbering is only an indication that two folios (subsequently numbered 57 and 58) were moved to elsewhere in the manuscript.

OTHER MATTERS

1. There are 39 recipes of 4 lines each, making a total of 156. In addition, there is one Incantation of 4 lines plus 1 title line, adding up to 5 and making a grand total of 161. The Incantation is not strictly a recipe but appears to be an original-author prelude to his recipes. Unlike the recipes, which were translated from Latin to French, the Incantation was left in the original Latin and hence could prove to be invaluable for decoding the VMS.

2. I haven't updated my French website in quite a while but the account of published output and textual variants should remain valid as well as a lot of the bibliographical and Cabala-related information. The latest on Marlowe and Shakespeare can be found on my English-language website.

In brief, I am claiming that the author of the VMS marginalia was the architect (creator of plots and characters but not the writer) of the Marlovian and Shakespearean plays. In addition, he wrote Faustbuch, Fama Fraternitatis and Novus Atlas. All of these works excluding Faustbuch, but including Marlowe's Faustus and all thirty-six plays in Shakespeare's First Folio, directly refer to one or more of the VMS recipes.

Consequently, a successful fresh decoding of the VMS could have unexpected impact on another sphere: It would quickly resolve a century-long debate regarding Shakespeare authorship.