Morten St George Theory

[Morten St. George]

Your contention that they faked 15th-century handwriting in 1600 ...

That is exactly what I am contending, so in no way am I rejecting your conclusion that the marginalia is written in the handwriting style of the 15th century.



Someone here, maybe you, maybe someone else, claims that the first word is the German gas  or gaf. I presume one of those words means goose, whereupon one gets goose's milk.

For my part, I view the first word as a sharp truncation of the Latin word gallo, starting with omission of the down slash on the first el. I'm pretty sure it's gallo because I find that word in the Herball encyclopedia of 1597, a book with established connections to the VMS. In said botanical encyclopedia, the word gallo (meaning Frenchman) is used to refer to the Michel Nostradamus of France (called Gaul in Roman times).

Note the marker (,,) for the double el  just below and between the two words. Note that this marginalia continues on You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. where the first two words include a double el (ll).

I'm quite sure that the author of this marginalia was a founding member of the Rose Cross, a secret society that became the literary arm of Protestant armies fighting a religious war against Roman Catholics. Deception was the name of the game.

If you want to unravel the secrets of the VMS, in this thread or in other threads, I'd recommend that you try to adopt the mentality of Sherlock Holmes, looking for clues with complete openness to anything and everything.