Morten St George Theory

[Morten St. George]

...

If anyone would like to compare the SSM and the VMS on marginalia authorship, know that the SSM is available online:

You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.

SSM marginalia includes alphabetic letters as well as numbers, which might help out in regard to John Dee's correspondence. Let us know what you find!

I've already sampled the numbers. They score quite well, but there are about a dozen that score slightly higher. Among the ones that are closest to the VMS foliation, it's hard to tell the difference between them but they come from all different countries, so it was a pretty widely dispersed style of numbering.

Thanks, JP, for having a look at it so quickly. I used the number "42" as an example because it was the only VMS page number that solidly overwrites a drawing. As a student of medieval occultism, the number 42 immediately struck a bell as an important name of God and quickly led me to the 72-letter name.

Meanwhile, the first page 42 of the SSM contains a potentially important diagram. That might not be a coincidence. That's why I'd like to know if the marginalia author could have been the same person for both manuscripts.