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Antonio, you are interpreting. The Rx abbreviation is used in many contexts, as I mentioned in my previous post.

Rx was used in the context of recipes (as in pharmaceutical recipes, which in those days were almost entirely plant-based) AND root (as in the root of a plant, which is why the word is so strongly associated with recipes) AND root (as in the abstract sense of fundamental or underlying) AND king (Rex) and a few other less common expansions, since any number of letters can be inserted between the R and the x.

Recipes were often written out in narrative form. Astronomical coordinates were rarely written out in narrative form, they were usually assembled into charts.


If there is an abbreviation for Rx in the VMS, it might have many meanings. There was no rule that said scribes had to use an abbreviation for only one thing. Medieval abbreviations were very flexible.

An astronomical interpretation is not the simplest explanation in a book with more than 100 pages of plants and only a few pages of stars.

Yes it's possible that the VMS includes numbers (or is entirely numbers), but numbers can be interpreted into many kinds of information (including linguistic). They don't have to be specifically astronomical.