14-03-2024, 01:27 PM
Since I believe that the star images in the earlier parts of the manuscript represent souls, I have toyed with the idea that the stars in Quire 20 may be for deceased members of their organization. To my untrained eye, it looks like the text was written as a whole. That is, not names added as needed. So, if this is the case, unless they had some truly horrible mass casualty incident, I would say that would indicate that the surviving manuscript is a copy of an earlier manuscript.