Morten St George Theory

[Morten St. George]

Morten, I've already stated earlier in this thread and in other threads that the style of the script on 116v is consistent with very late 14th century and early 15th to mid-15th century script. Nobody wrote like that in the early or mid-13th century.

Writing styles changed quite a bit from the early to the later medieval period. So much so, it's one of the primary means that bibliographers and historians use to estimate the dates of many manuscripts.

The style of the handwriting on 116v is very consistent with the radiocarbon dating.

This creates two problems for your theory. For one thing, you have stated that the text on 116v is central to your theory, but if it was created in the early 15th century, then it does not support your theory. The second problem is that if the main text (Voynichese) was created in the mid-13th century, then it predates the radiocarbon dating and the style of the text on 116v by more than a century.

Gosh, JP, I can see that I still need to do a lot of work to clarify my theories:

i. All of the marginalia was written into the Beinecke MS between 1584 and 1642 by the English owners of the VMS. They were familiar with old styles of handwriting and adopted different styles for the marginalia. 

ii. The radiocarbon date for the Beinecke MS is not disputed. The recipes section of the Beinecke MS is claimed to be a manual copy made in Mexico of recipes originally written in Spain between 1244 and 1284.

For example, the Bible was originally written BC but thousands of copies were manually made throughout the Middle Ages. In the same way, the Beinecke MS is a copy of earlier writings.