18-08-2019, 06:11 PM
(18-08-2019, 11:37 AM)-JKP- wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.I've done lots of reading on the Rosicrucians, and the Masons, and the Theosophists, and Edgar Cayce, and Nostradamus, and Edward Kelley, and anyone who is remotely weird, different, unusually intelligent, or interesting in other ways.
I don't think anyone was hiding anything in the quire numbers. I think that's your imagination talking. I think it's just a messy 9, probably added by the bookbinder's assistant or the person who acquired the VMS and wanted to get it bound. It is overall consistent with the other quire numbers and it doesn't really look like the tail-n on 116v. The stroke order is different.
I guess you're saying that is merely coincidental that the author of the quire numbers picked the wrong place to be "messy". For my part, I see little difference between my use of the phrase "pretending to be" and your use of the word "messy".
The tail-n of You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. comes on the same line as the word "mich" which I take to be a truncation of "michel". Thus, I view the alleged "mn" of the quire number as wishing to allude to michel nostradamus. That makes sense for folio 72 as the 72 divine names are apparently crucial for decoding the prophecies.
You've been insinuating that the VMS was diligently prepared for binding by a professional bookbinder. I haven't read that elsewhere. To me, the composition and arrangement of quires in the VMS looks quite messy, supporting my view that someone arranged the pages and quires so that certain specific content would appear with the desired numbers.
I haven't seen a lot of medieval manuscripts but I have seen a few, and I can't recall quire numbers in any of those manuscripts though I admit I was not looking for them. Are quire numbers, especially ones that look like the VMS quire numbers, commonly seen and equally visible in other medieval manuscripts?