Morten St George Theory

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You say that the VMS is unfinished. Could sudden conquest by the Aztecs account for something like that?

I didn't say it was unfinished. I believe there are signs that it was never finished, like missing initials (with space left for them), missing labels (in places where there were labels for similar objects). Small indications. It's my feeling that it wasn't quite finished (and who knows how many additional sections were intended that maybe never got started).

These sorts of works—I like to think of them as medieval books of knowledge—were often created by fathers for their sons, or for professors for their students, or for students for their own research and professional references, and so many things can happen to interrupt their creation (which can take months or years)... death, illness, war, theft, change of location, change of profession...