Morten St George Theory

[Morten St. George]

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Besides, did you ever see a real bull of color vermilion?
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It's not a real bull. It's a drawing.

Yes, but how to you wish to explain that the coloring of the first bull looks quite bullish?

I ran spectral analysis tests on the red clothes and on the red bull at You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. and it turns out that they are probably close enough to have been made with the same ink.

This leads me to conclude that

a) the dark red coloring for the clothes and for the bull are BOTH marginalia, or

b) it's just a drawing, as you say.

A quick check on some of the dark red from the flowers, swamps, vials and stars did NOT reveal a particularly good match with the bull but often in those places the ink was less densely applied.

When and if Koen gets in touch with Yale to request more protein tests and more radiocarbon tests, maybe he can also request more chemical composition tests, this time doing the dark red ink drawn from several places in the manuscript. With that, we should be able to get an idea as to what extent, if at all, the dark red ink could have been applied throughout the manuscript at the same time.