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The "strange signs" are pseudo-script, a topic that came up recently on the forum.
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The MS in question is the travels of Mandeville, detailing his adventures in foreign lands.
Mandeville mentions astronomers several times in the text.
The scripts of these foreign astronomers was not known to the illustrator, so he made up a pseudo-language inscription for this illustration.