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[MarcoP]

My favourite interpretation of the small writing at the centre of the illustration is that it is a colour annotation. This was previously discussed You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view..


With reference to other similar cases in the VMS and in other manuscripts, the relevant features are:

• the text is inside the outline of an illustration
  
• the text is much smaller than ordinary text (see comparison image below)
  
• the text is extremely short
  
• the text could be written in the Latin alphabet (this last point is uncertain)
  

   

I see the text as made of two symbols, the first of which was meant to have a descender ending horizontally. The second symbol is U-shaped. On the basis of You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. cere/tere and gasmich, one can think that this could be a poorly executed "gr" for "grün" / green. It could also be "gu" with the same meaning, but I am not sure this abbreviation is possible.

   
   

An alternative could be "yu", possibly related with "jaune", but this is even more far-fetched. A while ago, someone (VViews?) posted a paper about colour annotations, listing several of them, but I cannot find it at the moment.


But the truth is that these symbols are unrecognisable.