Morten St George Theory

[Morten St. George]

To me it looks like te or tc (with old-style curved "t").

In medieval text, it's sometimes hard to tell the difference between e and c (they didn't always close the loop on e) and between t and c (some scribes wrote t and c the same).

Thanks JP. I have this to say: the t (if it is a t) is not as unambiguously a t as the t of portas, and the e (if it is an e) is not as unambiguously an e as the e of ubren. Of the five c's that I have interpreted as c (to get 500), only the third one looks unambiguous. But assuming that the plus signs are an indication to seek numbers, then if it can be interpreted as a c (which is a number), then it is a c. In the next line, the v, the straight i's and the x's (to get 35) are less ambiguous.

Without any interpretation that is flatly erroneous, the numbers add up to 535, the number of the prophecy to which the marginalia pox leber ubren quarix portas points This is unlikely to be a coincidence.