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I haven't had/taken time to learn his handwriting yet (I'll give that some effort tonight after work) but I glanced through a few pages and notice he frequently leaves out spaces between words, which fits with how you spaced your transcription, as well. For example, he writes "salnoct-n9" for sol nocturnus.

As for spelling, it's rare to see "sol" written with an "a". The distinction between "a" and "o" is small but he definitely writes the vowel as an "a" (distinctly different from the following "o") which is not what one usually sees for "sol". Most ancient languages use an "o" symbol (or "o" with a dot inside or "o" written as a spiral) to represent the sun, and most medieval languages spell it with an "o".


I am struck by how similar some of his "u" shapes look to the VMS mystery vowel in "putpfer" but otherwise, there's very little similarity in handwriting other than the fact that both are in c. 15th century Gothic cursive in a mixture of Latin and German. The hands are definitely different—the VMS hand is thinner, less bold, more upright, and less curvy and individual letters like v, x and h (and the backbone and foot of the ell) are distinctly different.