[Blog Post] MSI at last!

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Another thing (back to f1r):

Brumbaugh writes in his book (p.115-116):

"After some work with ultraviolet light on folio 1r, my son Robert Conrad Brumbuagh, who was assisting me, proved that indeed someone had recognized the Bacon attribution cipher and had written it here in the margin. It is now badly obliterated and faded. In very small numbers, just above this table, is a date 1 * 3 0, the * illegible. Now, 1630 would fall into the period between the death of Tepenecz (in 1622) and Marchi's inheriting the manuscript (prior to 1644). At first, I thought the table might be earlier, a deliberate invitation to any would-be purchaser to read the ''Bacon'' cipher in the key. But we now favor the 1630 date, and assume that the writer of this table, having found that it read the key text, hoped that it would work for the balance of the cipher manuscript text as well."

Just a thought, maybe the rightmost "a, b, c" in the third column, being offset from the rest of the letters, resembled in UV a separate vertical inscription? 'b' and 'c' could look like 30 together, 'a' would be something that looks not quite like 6, but not totally unlike 6 at the same time, and some random line above them would register as 1?