21-03-2017, 10:00 PM
A billy goat's liver, a red horse and goat's milk would likely be a good composition for a medieval magic 
I thought about all this. If the first word really means billy goat's liver, if the whole marginalia is a recipe of something, so which associations could be with this? Liver is often associated with blood and red or brown colour. Looking on the word r/v/po**fer, I am rather inclined to the variant with the first letter "r", therefore unintentionally words "Rot" and latin suffix "-fer" come to my mind, "Rotfer" could be something like "Rubrifer" (giving the red) in Latin, but, unfortunately, it looks likely as "rot*fer", where an asterisk visually can be p, v, r or i'. As was suggested by many, the third word of the first line can be kupfer, but was noted that the first letter is not "k", as well, there is an unwanted stroke in the center of the word. I think, this problem can be solved, if we read it as You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. (red copper). Possibly, the central character stands for two intentionally connected or superimposed each other letters t and c. In this case, we get "rotcufer" or "rotcpfer". As many people claim that dropped letters is a less problem and quite possible, letters p or v could be dropped, but I think, in this case, it is even not necessary.
The word Kupfer had many variants of spelling in different regions of the medieval Europe: kupffer, kopfer, cupfer, kufer or cufer.
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Sometimes, kufer or kofer could mean a copper vat.
At first sight, it is strange, of course, what a recipe can contain such ingredients, as a liver, copper and milk. Recipe of a remedy, of a pigment?
I have a supposition that it relates to alchemy after all. Possibly, it is just masked, therefore looks so meaningless. Copper (rotcupfer), liver of sulphur (poxleber) and milk of sulphur (gasmi[l]ch) are components of an alchemical solution. I think the red copper is a red precipitate of copper oxide.
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I thought about all this. If the first word really means billy goat's liver, if the whole marginalia is a recipe of something, so which associations could be with this? Liver is often associated with blood and red or brown colour. Looking on the word r/v/po**fer, I am rather inclined to the variant with the first letter "r", therefore unintentionally words "Rot" and latin suffix "-fer" come to my mind, "Rotfer" could be something like "Rubrifer" (giving the red) in Latin, but, unfortunately, it looks likely as "rot*fer", where an asterisk visually can be p, v, r or i'. As was suggested by many, the third word of the first line can be kupfer, but was noted that the first letter is not "k", as well, there is an unwanted stroke in the center of the word. I think, this problem can be solved, if we read it as You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. (red copper). Possibly, the central character stands for two intentionally connected or superimposed each other letters t and c. In this case, we get "rotcufer" or "rotcpfer". As many people claim that dropped letters is a less problem and quite possible, letters p or v could be dropped, but I think, in this case, it is even not necessary.
The word Kupfer had many variants of spelling in different regions of the medieval Europe: kupffer, kopfer, cupfer, kufer or cufer.
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Sometimes, kufer or kofer could mean a copper vat.
At first sight, it is strange, of course, what a recipe can contain such ingredients, as a liver, copper and milk. Recipe of a remedy, of a pigment?
I have a supposition that it relates to alchemy after all. Possibly, it is just masked, therefore looks so meaningless. Copper (rotcupfer), liver of sulphur (poxleber) and milk of sulphur (gasmi[l]ch) are components of an alchemical solution. I think the red copper is a red precipitate of copper oxide.
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