Morten St George Theory

[Morten St. George]

It's not the job of a researcher to imagine when it was made and to try to force it into another time period. The style of writing on 116v/17r is 15th century whether it fits your theory or not.

JP, I was assuming that you had read my Rosetta Stone essay in which I provide ample evidence that the VMS marginalia expresses familiarity with two external publications of the late 16th century, thereby negating the likelihood of authorship during the 15th century. If not, you can find it here: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.  I think adopting the handwriting style of the 15th century would have made a perfect disguise for masking the time of authorship.

I believe I have identified the author of the marginalia via clues found in interconnected publications of the epoch. Though born in England, he grew up in Germany where he acquired a broad education at Tübingen University, later took courses at Oxford. I have him down as author of two anonymous classics of the German language (1587, 1614), plus using a false name for authorship of one book in Italian (1607) and one in Latin (1633), also unnamed contributing author of books written in French (1590) and English (1623). In his Will, he bequeathed hundreds of books and manuscripts (in multiple languages) that were in his possession. His writings express familiarity with German legends of the 15th century and I'm confident he could have adopted the handwriting style of that epoch if he so wished.