Morten St George Theory

[-JKP-]

You're proposing a system of abbreviation that not only is not indicated on this page, but which was foreign to medieval scribes.

I have modified my essay as follows:

"In case there remains any doubt that the marginalia refers to a Nostradamus prophecy, the author gives us still another clue:



These two words, part of the Germanic misdirection, immediately follow the pox leber in the first line of f116v. Note the dot above and just to the right of the p but there is nothing here that looks like an i. Later, we are going to encounter a capital P with a lower dot to the right of it, taken as a signal to transition the capital P into a small p. Here, we must assume the opposite, a signal to transition the small p into a capital P. Note that German is a language that capitalizes its nouns.

A dot to turn something from capital to lowercase and vice versa? I've looked at thousands of medieval manuscripts and I have never seen such a thing.

It may be true that modern German capitalizes nouns, but it was not at all typical of medieval German. In fact, frequently they didn't capitalize sentences either and punctuation was often missing as well. Capitalization was not standardized and some manuscripts only used it for the names of people or saints and some only used capitals at the beginning of paragraphs.

I doubt if you can find a single example of a period being used to lowercase or uppercase a letter in a medieval manuscript.