Morten St George Theory

[Morten St. George]

Why did you count the "x" on morix and marix and ignore the one on "vix".

JP, 

It seems I overlooked responding to an implied question.

I've interpreted your "marix" as "quarix" on the basis of "quadrix" (Brumbaugh 1975) and "quarix" (Newbold 1928). Unlike the other m's in the marginalia, there seems to be some space between the first and second parts of the m. I also see a tinge of a horizontal line across the first part, which would be more typical of a q than an m. An isolated q appears in the third line of the incantation:



In the marginalia, we find the acute accent in red ink just above the u. The red ink also overwrites part of the first part of the m and separates it from the second part. (Typically, there is nothing accidental or coincidental in this type of writing and that would include the red ink blots) Thus, the correct answer may be neither morix nor quarix but rather q uarix where the isolated q abbreviates words that could include the "Qui" found just below the q at the beginning of the next line of the incantation. And this just happens to be the precise word (including the capital letter) that we find at the beginning of the second line of the You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. prophecy (v-35): "Qui porte".

But beyond all that, I fully agree with you: it's looks like an m.