I don't know what the other transcripts have for this, but I interpret this as opch?ldg. (I can't tell if it's a or o and I sometimes wonder if there is a glyph that is deliberately written as in between a and o because there are many of them AND we should not assume these are the same as Latin "a" and "o"—for now they are just shapes that resemble Latin characters):
I think it's an ink skip on the top of ch. It looks different from ee written separately. There are quite a few with ink skips, but sometimes the ink skip is a little more obvious than others. You get used to seeing certain patterns if you go through the entire manuscript glyph-by-glyph.
I think it's an ink skip on the top of ch. It looks different from ee written separately. There are quite a few with ink skips, but sometimes the ink skip is a little more obvious than others. You get used to seeing certain patterns if you go through the entire manuscript glyph-by-glyph.