Morten St George Theory

[Morten St. George]

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The situation is that you have been trying to associate the VMS with 15th century Europe when you should really be looking at 13th century Europe.

No, you are are wrong. I have not being trying to associate the VMS with 15th century Europe. I DON'T CARE when it was made. I DON'T CARE where it was made. I would LOVE it if it were made in the 13th century, which is an interesting period of history, but there are no signs of 13th century writing or drawing or technology in the VMS. Early medieval manuscripts have a certain look and feel that is clearly recognizable and the VMS doesn't ring true for the 13th century.

The EVIDENCE points to 15th century and more than likely the Old World. I have no choice in the matter. The data leads where it leads.

You are following a hypothesis. Hypotheses can be misleading. More often than not, a premature hypothesis, that is formed before there is sufficient knowledge to formulate it, ends up leading a person astray.

First of all, let's clarify that my primary objective is to demonstrate that the VMS marginalia provides valuable information for decoding the VMS. It is not to establish the New World origin of the VMS. The decoding efforts remain applicable regardless of when or where the VMS was composed.

There is no denying that the VMS is linked to Europe. We see a Roman bath, a mountaintop castle, a chateau with saddleback roof, and medieval clothing. But, as far as I am aware, there is nothing there that would definitively place the composition of the VMS in the 15th century as opposed to the 13th century. If you know of something, please let us know what it is.

In view of the possibility that the VMS could be a copy of an earlier manuscript (few visible corrections and a multitude of hands suggest this), the radiocarbon dating does not tell us when the VMS script was created. It only tells us that the script was created no later than the early 15th century.

During the Crusades, medieval boats appear to have had no problem traveling from England to the Holy Land and back, so surely they were capable of crossing the Atlantic. During the same epoch, European heretics known as Cathars were being hunted down and burned alive wherever found. If anyone ever had motive to flee Europe, surely these Cathars did. Did I ever mention that the VMS depicts a Cathar baptismal ceremony on f80v?