Gemini crossed arms imagery

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I hadn’t even thought of that Marco, although now that you mention it, there’s also the “To nim gas mich” on line 3 as well. I don’t think I have ever seen “mihi” written as “michi” before, and I don’t know enough about middle Dutch to know how odd that spelling choice is for a Latin word.

Just a small note... It's So nim gas/gaf mich. Long-ess. It's hard to see the long stem on the ess (the descending part), the ink has almost faded out, but it's there.

Ah, I was trying to think of a quick way to refer to the “mich” in line 3 and should have realised that I would have to justify whatever I wrote. My interpretation of the gas/gaf word is that the final glyph is ambiguous and I don’t have a strong preference* for either reading. The “To” was a typo - I’ve been working with some Old English medical recipes and charms today so I’ve been reading and writing “To” and “nim” rather a lot. Sorry for the confusion!



*In all honesty I have an extremely mild preference for long-S over f because I think that the proportions of that glyph in relation to the x-height of the rest of the letters is closer to that of long-s, but I keep both readings in mind when I’m thinking about that fragment of text as there’s too much ambiguity to be certain.