Morten St George Theory

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Morten: Our all-critical page of wheels (f57v) is also marked by what seems to be a quire number in the bottom right-hand corner where we find a mysterious number "5". But this cannot be the 5th quire because You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. lies between the 7th and 8th quires, and an earlier page is already marked as the 5th quire. Here you see our mysterious number 5 followed by, for comparison, the markings for the 5th and 15th quires:

Morten, that's not a number 5. It simply wasn't written like that in any medieval or early Renaissance script.

It is most likely the letter "g". A number of scribes wrote "g" by writing a "y" shape and then adding the crossbar. I have posted examples on another thread.


But it's not 5. I haven't seen a 5 written like that in any manuscript. You are correct that the number in the middle pic (that looks a bit like a modern "7") is the number 5.