Morten St George Theory

[Morten St. George]

Reasons why i dont think the vms was made in America? Basically the timing aspects. I think it is possible for people to have gone there before 1492, but to write up this entire manuscript, keeping it in relatively good shape, and still have it show up in Prague centuries later seems a stretch to me. But you know what, i just realized that if someone did that, they might well write a book about the history they could remember of the old world, for others in future to know of its existence. And the dated events i outlined precede the commonly quoted 1438 carbon dating by 20 years. So i concede to the possibility. But i would say the probability is still very low. 

The girasols have my head spinning, so I think it's time to try to get back on topic.

From 1244 (the demise of the Cathars) to 1438 (end of carbon range) I count the passing of nearly two hundred years, which probably isn't all that long of time for the Middle Ages when changes came far more slowly than in modern times. Note, for example, that some of the zodiac symbols seen in the VMS had already remained unchanged for thousands of years.

Depictions of the Black Death (which wiped out something like half the population of Europe in the middle of the 14th century) is a glaring absence in a manuscript that includes a section on herbal medicine.

Likewise nowhere to be found in the manuscript are depictions of smoking guns like the gunpowder cannon which exploded on the scene during the 14th century. Indeed, there appears to be no drawing in the VMS whereby we can definitively claim that the respective drawing was originally created after the year 1244.

Our inability to firmly establish the time and place of the creation of VMS internal content is a clear sign that precedent material is not available to us. And that alone points to the Cathars as authors of the VMS. During the early 13th century, the infamous Inquisition was created with the objective of destroying Catharism and that included Cathar books and Cathar libraries. In other words, the material that we would need to establish precedence for the VMS is precisely the material that was destroyed by the Inquisition.

Catharism did not survive in Europe, so for Cathars to have authored the VMS, we must assume that some of them went elsewhere.