Morten St George Theory

[Linda]

On a couple of them I saw equal numbers of men and women conducting a religious or administrative meeting. 

Only in a heretic sect called Catharism, which effectively became extinct in the 13th century, did men and women have equal rights.

So the Cathar premise is based on two of ten zodiac pages showing equal numbers of men and women. Why would it be only two of the pages? What would the only women pages represent? Why are there no only men pages?

 

On the Rosettes folio, we see the depiction of a mountaintop fortress that no one has been able to identify. A famous mountaintop fortress that was completely dismantled (not even the ruins were allowed to remain) was Montségur, the last stronghold of the Cathars. 

Do we have descriptions of it, or a drawing or painting, anything to correspond? Otherwise it is a nice but unprovable coincidence.

Meanwhile, in the swamps section, we see a Cathar baptismal ceremony and a gal holding a medieval instrument that was used to scrape clean the furry side of animal hides. The Cathars reportedly taught reading, writing, and parchment-making to their converts.

Why though, would they be baptizing and cleaning skins at the same time? Seems a bit messy somehow.

This is only the beginning of the evidence that causes me to dispute Wikipedia's claim (made in the second sentence of its VMS article) that "it may have been composed in Northern Italy during the Italian Renaissance." 

I dont know about that. In my own theory, the path led me to various places in Northern Italy. However other places also come up.

You do not need to be an art expert to surmise that the VMS does not display artwork in the style of Da Vinci and Michelangelo.

That is because we aren't dealing with such works. Nor would we be for your Cathars. Plus they both were born well after the time of the carbon dating. So it is not really an argument that helps you. 

The vms is, however, drawn in a style more similar to these.