Morten St George Theory

[-JKP-]

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.

So you're saying they faked almost two-centuries-old handwriting on 116v. You haven't presented any evidence for this and it's not a very plausible assertion.

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.

But the Mexican conquest is a century AFTER the radiocarbon dating, regardless of when the material was originally written, and assuming the VMS dense text is recipes (which we don't know), and assuming it's natural language (for which there is, as yet, no proof).

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.

This has nothing to do with the radiocarbon dating or whether the last page is fake handwriting. Most nonfiction books are copied or partly copied from other sources. So what?