Eastern Astrology present in VMS

[Jorge_Stolfi]

BTW, the opposite of a may occur in the manuscript. For example, this ocTho from f72r.3, not only it's a weird symmetrical word, but the first glyph looks like \). Is this intentional or a slip of the pen, I don't know.

And this HAD to be one of the pages that Beinecke chose to image at lower resolution (2600/235 pixels/mm instead of the usual 3500/235).  And to omit from the multispectral scan.  

   

Indeed, that is an occurrence of the stroke combination that I said "does not occur at all" in my previous post.

I cannot tell whether that "anti-a" was penned by the original Scribe or by one of those ghostly Retracers who now live rent-free in by head.  (The original trace may have looked like that of the outer star at 09:00, or the hand of the outer nymph at 12:00.)

Either way, I would bet that this glyph was meant to be a regular o, as the transcribers read it. An accidental deformation seems much more likely than a glyph that occurs only once or twice in the whole book.

Also, I'm not even sure this is ocTho and not octho, it looks as if the part of the horizontal bar between the legs of t is missing.

I would bet on oCTho, for the same reason...

There are a lot of maybes in the manuscript.

You don't say...