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[Jorge_Stolfi]

Is that second last word really all Voynichese? The part after 'ot' looks ambiguous and more like Latin characters. Last character of that word looks like EVA 'L'. And the last word - EVA 'aim'?

Sorry, which word are you referring to?  By "first two words of the last line" I meant these:

   

The handwriting is a bit awkward (like that of the later Retracers) but I would say that the glyphs are all legible and definitely Voynichese, not Latin.

By the way, the last glyph on the first line is also a proper Voynichese d , not Latin.  Coincidentally, it too les outside or just inside the Big Water Stain.

I disagree that this is the effect of incorrect retracing. We have the same weird mixture of ambiguous Latin and Voynich glyphs in all marginalia. And here the script is much smaller than the regular one.

By "all margnalia" you mean this text and the line at the top of page f17r? At least half of that line lies inside another "water" stain, that clearly erased whatever was in there.  

The sequence of events in that case are less clear.  There may have been two rounds of retracing: (1) the first round "restored" an original faded Voynichese annotation as Latin letters, (2) the water stain washed away the second half of that line, (3) a second round retouched some letters in this part but gave up on the rest. 

With my Superior Pareidolia, I can even see the plume of an s over the "c" of "Malhcr", and the two loops of a t above the "ll" of "allar"...

But maybe originally there was no Voynichese or anything in that space, and the first of those Restorers just hallucinated and mistook a few smudges and scratches for faded writing.

Either way, it is remarkable that, as in f116v, not a single word in that text makes sense, in any language.  A mistaken restoration is the only plausible explanation I have seen for this fact.

All the best, --stolfi