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...I found in Capelli book (page 171) an abbreviation that looks very similar. If you read it as "inchacon" or "inchaton" it can be the abbreviation for "inchoacione" or "inchoatione".

I don't think there is much doubt that it is letter "i" between the "h" and the "t" in ?chiton.

   

   

 It is written in the same style as the other "i" characters on the folio, with a long leading serif (sometimes called an "approach stroke"). Some of the i-chars are dotted some are not (it was common to do it both ways), but this one is dotted and it's not touching the letters before or after, so it is very clearly written. I have some data on how many scribes wrote it this way (with the long serif) that I'll post when I have time.

The only part that is ambiguous is the "ni" or "an" or whatever is at the beginning of the word, but the first letter doesn't look very much like an "i" (the first letter is drawn very strangely but I have found a SMALL number that are similar) which makes it difficult to resolve it as "inchoatione".


It might be possible to argue that it is "nichiton" with a loop-n and no dot on the first "i". I can't remember if there are people who have suggested this (maybe Anton?).