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The little stars they are holding on a thread represent spiritus, it's the connection conduit from the subject to the heavens.

You might not be too wrong. People in those times believed in the efficacy of astrological magic. The 'angels' holding a star might possibly represent the angels in heaven. There were angels of the mansions of the moon, angels of the planets, angels of the stars, angels of the four winds, angels of the four elements. Moreover, and this is a very important fact, each angel had a name. In particular the Bible mentions several angels by name: the angel Gabriel, Raphael, the archangel Michael. It was believed that angels had individual roles and that each could be summoned by name with an appropriate incantation for a specific intent.

But of course this is all bunkum. The manuscript is a fabricated text, a hoax. It fraudulently portrays itself to be a manuscript of the secret sciences. The circles in quires 11 and 12 do seem to illustrate common beliefs about angelic magic of the 15th century. The labels next to each 'angel' are nothing more than random names.