Morten St George Theory

[Morten St. George]

Morten, If you are open to further criticism, I would also recommend dumping references to what others may or may not have identified in the past. If your identification is different, there is no need to bring in someone elses' likely erroneous take on the matter, it just clutters up your presentation, and can put the reader into a state of disagreement even before they get to the part where you outline your own theory.  i.e. dont call it the recipes section if you dont think they are recipes, call it quire 20 instead of italicizing the word 'recipes'. If you dont think it says pox leber or has to do with goat liver, then dont include that part, you not thinking it is the case is already implied in your explanation of your own theory. Commenting on these items can rub the wrong way, and yet has nothing to do with your theory other than being in opposition, so is better off not discussed within the theory presentation itself.

Linda, you are right: I should have put the word "recipes" into quotes rather than use italics because in no way do I think, or want others to think, that the VMS contains cooking instructions. It was only a matter of communication given that the term recipes is often found in the literature to refer to the text section. Then again, it could be confusing to call it the "text section" because most of the manuscript contains text.

I saw someone refer to it as the "stars section" (the paragraphs in that section being with bullets in the form of stars) and I tried that for a while. Then to my dismay I noticed that JP thought I was referring to the astronomy section, so I had to drop that idea too.

Your suggestion of "Quire 20", though technically correct, also has to be rejected because I'm quite sure that, outside of this forum, almost nobody knows what a quire is.

Right now, I like JP's idea of "deep text" the best. So that's what I'm going to do. As soon as I get the chance, I'm going to change the first "recipes"  to "Deep Text section (final 23 pages of the manuscript)" and thereafter refer to it as the "Deep Text". I will also try to improve the "pox leber" wording. Many thanks for your input on these matters.