Morten St George Theory

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Morten St George: After interpreting pox leber as por liber, I go on to establish a rational connection between por liber and all of the following marginalia words: oladabas, portas, abia, maria, ubren, mich, and o, not to mention two sequences of Roman numerals.

Are you able to connect any of those words with goat’s liver?

goat's liver is not my translation, I came across the phrase referenced in a thesis submitted to the University of Wisconsin in 1902, Charles H. Handschinbut, and it was proposed by one of the speakers at the Villa Mandragore conference (and I don't know if the idea is his to connect it to the VMS or someone earlier). BUT, it is completely reasonable to suggest it and I do not discount the idea because it can be defended on numerous levels...

• The word "maria" and other biblical names were frequently used in medicinal charms and remedies.
  
• Repetitious homonymic Latin words like vix/fix, etc. were frequently inserted in charms.
  
• The crosses were frequently added between words in medicinal charms and remedies to indicate when to genuflect while chanting the charm.
  
• Liver is mentioned frequently as an ingredient in medicinal charms and remedies.
  
• Languages were typically mixed in medicinal charms and remedies.
  
• If the last phrase is "so nim gaf mich", the grammar is fractured and is not the natural way to order the words in German, but it could be transliterated as "so to take gave to me" which could be interpreted as "so to ingest gave me" or so to take with me, gave to me" or in good English, "So he gave it to me to take." which is not necessarily the best interpretation out of several possibilities, but it would be completely consistent with someone having been given a remedy either to use right away or to take with them (e.g., to take home or to take on a journey).
  

So, yes, "pox leber" can be connected logically to the rest of it and, in fact, would be fairly common for the time. You should look at some of the examples of medicinal charms on my blog. They are a mixture of Latin, German, biblical and Kabbalistic Hebrew "power" words and names.

And one does not have to change the letter "e" into "i" to make it work.

Examples:

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Of course, you have to be able to read them to see that they mention various kinds of animal parts as ingredients and that they are a mixture of languages.

I'm not saying 116v is a charm, but it does follow many of the medieval conventions for charms (which were often added to the last page of manuscripts).