Morten St George Theory

[Morten St. George]

Morten I don't care what medieval academics say (well, maybe some of them if they've been looking at original sources rather than pirating each other).

I care about what I see manuscripts. And what I see written on fly leaves is medicinal recipes, many of them, and liver was a common ingredient.

What this means is that the person who suggested the pox leber reading is proposing something completely believable and rational for the time.

JP, I think you are exaggerating here. Not in a million years will I believe that the word "leber" was commonly seen on the fly leaves of medieval manuscripts, and I even find it doubtful that another instance of "pox leber" can be found on any fly leaf. To the contrary, "liber" may have been somewhat commonplace. In fact, just yesterday I read that one of the Sworn Books was inscribed "Sum Ben: Jonsonij liber."

The liver concept surely gathers support from institutionalized ignorance to the effect that quire 20 (which immediately precedes leber) comprises cooking instructions, and liver, of course, is something that can be cooked. This worries me: with all the zombies of Western civilization anticipating medieval recipes, it might become nearly impossible to convince anyone to take a serious look at a decoding that produces prophecies. Is it possible to do a Press Release in China?