Morten St George Theory

[Morten St. George]

I pretty much think of 116v as marginalia. There's no guarantee whatsoever that it was written at the same time as the main text. It could have been added 1 or 2 decades later, possibly even in another country. 

With our total inability to carbon-date the marginalia, it is easy to see how someone might think that its German words could have been written around the same time as the main body of the VMS or shortly thereafter, or that the VMS could have been written by Germans (who probably wrote mostly in Latin during that epoch) or that the VMS could have been compiled "north of the Alps".  This would be especially true, as is here the case, where the handwriting style of the marginalia has been determined to be consistent with typical handwriting styles of the 15th century.

In my own investigation of the marginalia, I discovered that it unmistakably reveals knowledge of prophetic writings published in 1590 and of a herbal encyclopedia published in 1597. This overrides all other considerations: the marginalia had to have been written toward the end of the 16th century or sometime thereafter.

Similar logic applies to a refutation of a prophet named Michel Nostradamus (1503 - 1566): some of the prophecies attributed to him reflect detailed knowledge of French historical events of the 1580s, hence they could not have been written any earlier than that.

Meanwhile, the marginalia's surreptitious pointers to the aforementioned prophetic and herbal books bring into play other books (written in the Latin, German, English and Italian languages) that likewise surreptitiously link to one or the other or both of those books.  As it turns out, the history of the VMS and the identity of the marginalia's author are no longer as much of a mystery as they once were.

What's a surreptitious link?



This is a only a quatrain, not a VMS prophecy. So, where do we find something beginning with "Boni"?



Confirmed by a corroboration (not to mention the depicted astrolabe!), we've been drawn to an Italian book that initiates the story of An English Fairy Tale that I posted the other day.