Lingua Volgare Shorthand

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This is a rough transcription of 3 lines based on the hints and printed text mentioned by Patrick.

   

1. o. wr^ of o. dn~ is in.y~, as he t chi.y mo 9.&in-
sp.^s y~, & is th.^ Gn~l, S.lg co~miss.~ to his vni u^s.l vicar
& Leuten.t, rec.g pow^ fr him, Apoc.13.2.


1 the wrath of the dragon is in them, as he the chiefe moover, ins-
pires them, and is their General, Sealing commission to his universal vicar 
and Leutenant, receiving power from him, Apoc. 13. 2.


Based on the printed text:
1 The wrath of the dragon is in them, as the chiefe moover, inspirer, and General, who seales commission to his universal Vicar and Liutenant, who receives power from him, Revel. 13. 2.


My impression is that this heavily abbreviated text probably behaves like the texts analyzed by You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. and is likely to have a higher entropy than a non-abbreviated text. But of course, in order to produce an actual measure, one would need a much longer transcription (and plain-text, for comparison).

EDIT: for instance, frequent trigrams like "the" and "ing" are replace by bigrams or single characters like "o." and "g".