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Here is another example of the use of the symbol that looks like the letter c to represent the Moon

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On the left is a picture of the eclipsed part of the Moon. Above the letter p, which means part, you can see the symbol c. Can also be seen on the following pages.

It is clear that a glyph that looks like the letter c and that we see in the VM script was commonly used in its time in works on astronomy...

It's an abbreviation.

The specific letter "c" you reference (next to the diagrams) is on the solar eclipse pages (not the lunar eclipse pages).

There are three columns:

             Column 1 is p superscript-c   Column 2 is mth (sometimes mith)   Column 3 is 2nd

   


I'm not familiar with this specific notation, but I can make an educated guess that the numbers represent time and the columns are labeled as

Column 1 - principium (beginning [at the hour of])
Column 2 - minutus/minuta (minutes)
Column 3 - secundus/secunda (seconds)

If my interpretation is correct, the "c" has nothing to do with the moon. It is simply the letter "c" in the abbreviation principium, the time at which the solar eclipse begins.

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I should point out that this folio is in late 14th-century/early 15th-century script and I don't think they had an accurate way to count seconds until a couple of centuries later, but the numbers in the first column never go over 12 and the numbers in the second and third columns never go over 60, and the abbreviations match up quite well with beginning/minutes/seconds, so that's the best interpretation for the column headers that I can give until I have more information.
Regardless of whether they could count seconds, I'm reasonably confident that the number in the first column represents the start of the eclipse, probably in hours and that pc is a linguistic abbreviation that has nothing to do with the moon.