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[JoJo_Jost]

That must be it: I have no doubt about it anymore.

Magister apiarius [....] fucus
The master of beekeeping [... ] Bee resin / Propolis

I came up with this because I couldn't figure out luc3. Then I took another close look at it:
   


Here you can see that there is another line running through the bottom. So it's an f. = fuc' = fucus – a completely normal reading.
And when I saw that fucus could also mean Bee resin / Propolis (in rare cases), I remembered that one of the variants I had considered for the first word was Apiarius = beekeeper (apiar' = apiarius). I had rejected it because it seemed too nonsensical to me. But with fucus = bee resin / Propolis, it suddenly makes sense, after all, we are in a botanical context. Then the "m" is Magister, which needs no macron; that is common. Magister Apriarius would probably be a teacher/master of beekeeping, for example in a monastery.

So if three of the words fit together, then the probability is very high that the translation is correct, especially since the letters also fit perfectly (the first "L" in the first word is actually part of the A).



I'll have to fiddle around with the rest a bit more, but do hve Ideas now..


@ Koan: You're right, of course, an rotunda r doesn't come after an l, but I had already expected a P in the previous version, so it would have been possible .