Morten St George Theory

[Morten St. George]

On another matter, I've been checking out the Lexicon Abbreviaturarum (highly recommended to me by Paris) and, so far, I've been unable to find a single instance of the use of superscript "m9" anywhere in medieval Europe. It seems they could combine the "9" with almost anything except an "m",

No Morten, they combined m9 for different meanings.

In this book (Lexicon Abbreviaturarum), I saw three different explanations for "m9"
- minus or manus (page 209)
- mandamus (page 209)
- tertius (page 16)

Paris, I said "I've been unable to find a single instance of the use of superscript "m9" anywhere in medieval Europe." I saw what you show me.  The "m" is not a superscript (higher up, above the rest of the main word) like it is in the VMS. There is no problem with an "m" followed by a superscript "9".  If you look around, you will find many superscript "m" (representing "um") but not combined with a superscript "9" (representing "us"). From what I can see in the Lexicon, they did not combine both the "m" and "9" in a superscript. It therefore becomes necessary for JP to find a credible explanation of why the author of the VMS quire numbers decided to depart from normal practice. I already offered my explanation of why he did it.