F66r question

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A first question to follow up on this would be why one would write "mush meal" at all - did that exist as a concept

When googling for 'musmehl' one finds that this is a type of porridge eaten already in the middle ages.
Apparently, this was especially the case in Swabia, which is South-West Germany, including lake Konstanz.
I have not found any reference to it ever being used in some medicinal manner.

The second, more difficult question is what this means for the first "word". Unless I'm mistaken, it cannot be read as an article that goes with "mel".

Here, I am not at all sure that we are seeing the whole word. But it could just be an example of another m overwritten by a d.

In that case, the suggestion that this is a translation attempt by a later owner becomes a bit more likely: "perhaps this character should be a d rather than an m".

From every observation some new hypothesis sprouts immediately, so now we might even guess that this bifolio used to be in the centre of a quire. In that case, writing deep in the margin would not have been a problem.
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