f114r - what happened?

[Jorge_Stolfi]

The star of this paragraph seems to be a bit too up from the paragraph starting point.

Yes.  But such deviations are seen throughout the section.  Here is You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. in the Stars section.  The third column VPOS  {NN}±{D.D} says that (in my opinion) line {NN} is the head of the parag that the star belongs to, but its position is ±{D.D} lines off from that line.  

My guess is that the Scribe wrote all the text first, and then drew all the stars (or vice-versa); and did not quite realize that each star had to be aligned with the corresponding parag head.  Or lost track of which lines were parag heads.

I have spent some time trying to find the true parag breaks (earlier I posted the reasoning for one of the pages), and currently I think there are 327 parags but only 323 stars (thus 4 parags without stars).  It is possible that stars with double tails count as two stars, but then there may be too many stars.  

To complicate matters, there is one page where the Scribe seems to have mashed several parags together, instead of breaking line between them.  

  At 14:00: "Hey, you are wasting too much vellum! Do you think it grows 
    on trees? Write more compactly!"

  At 15:00: "Hey, what are you doing?  You must break lines between parags! 
    Oh God, what did I do to deserve this?  They don't make scribes as they used to!

All the best, --jorge