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Thanks, for the link, Rene. I have some thoughts about the content...

• Reading long-ess as "f" makes no sense at all.
  
• He's reading several of the clearly written "r" letters as "v". It's a specific style of "r" where the right stroke is disconnected from the stem, but many scribes wrote it this way in the 15th century.
  

• There is no "a" in front of the "x" in marix morix (I don't understand why someone would add an "a" letter here).
  
• I don't think the "x" in six, marix, morix is disputable. It's not the most common shape for "x" but it IS a standard shape and clearly and consistently written.
  
• I'm not sure how the author gets "alka". There is only one ascender, not two, and everyone in the 14th to 16th century wrote "k" with a long ascender. It is a strangely written word (it looks like the "i" shape started out as something else and got corrected partway through, but it doesn't look like "lk".
  
• The larger letter at the end of the 2nd line might be M or N. It's not certain without more context. I'll blog about this when I have time. Both letters were sometimes written this way (the uppercase versions were harder to distinguish from each other than lowercase "m" and "n").
  

I don't think we can say lines 2 and 3 are Latin. I DO think they are consistent with sounds and structures in Romance languages (as opposed to Germanic), but it doesn't have to be Latin. Latin seems more likely than others, but "portas" is a word in several languages and "six + morix + marix + vix" might be charm words, in which case they don't have to mean anything, they might simply be Latinesque rather than meaningful Latin.

Also, we don't know what "vix" is. The middle letter looks like a Voynich glyph, which means it's not necessarily the letter "i".

It's difficult to interpret "valden/valsen/palden/palsen" because a figure-8 letter in the middle of a word can be either d or s and there are signs of erasure under the words, so the first letters might be "p" with erased stems. We probably need to figure out more of the overall intention before we'll know for sure how to interpret these.