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[Helmut Winkler]

That's an interesting reading, but "uc-" is a very unusual word beginning both in Latin and in German, I think. This adds to the absence of space, of course, - but spaces appear something disrespected in the VMS.

I just played with color once more, and the word next to this "bucorum" appears to be "he*", where the "*" stands for something like m or g. What would such abbreviation expand to?

It usually stands for et cetera, is very common in the VMS and in late medieval mss. and is one of the reasons why I think the VMS is just a highly abbreviated Latin ms.