Morten St George Theory

[Morten St. George]

Morton, they didn't add a crossbar to that style of five and I have NEVER seen one with a sharp hook like that, especially on two of the corners. I've looked at thousands of folios in thousands of manuscripts and I have sampled thousands of examples (tens of thousands).

It does not look like medieval 5. It DOES look like medieval g or y with a macron.

I've posted examples in another thread, but it's not an easy thing to find with search.

JP, I think I got it: under the macron of the 5 on You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. we find neither a number nor a g. I think it's meant to be the Hebrew letter Lamed, ל . My logic runs as follows: the numerical value of Lamed is 30, and if we add that to the 42-letter name of God (recall the blatant overwrite on f42r) we get the 72-letter name of God which is alluded to via the double-bar quire number displayed on f72v. I think it's virtually certain that we need to insert those 72 Latin letters around one of our wheels. Little by little, we might be getting closer to decoding this thing!