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I think that if anyone offers a transcription and translation of the text, it should be accompanied with the character groupings that would lead to that transcription. Then we can ask a set of questions:

1. Are the character groups proposed relatively consistent? If not, would a different grouping be more consistent?
2. Do the proposed groups correspond reasonably with how the characters within them might have been written in the 15th century?
3. If a single instance of a character might plausibly belong to another group (which happens in my groupings with "t" vs. "c" or "b" vs. "h"), is the possibility that this character in fact belongs to a different group strong enough to dismiss any coherent translation that the current assignment affords us?

There are a lot of factors to be weighed. Linguistic coherence and orthographic consistency both rank high for me. Here is the grouping that led to my translations of You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. and You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. (with characters from You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. outlined in red) -- I would love to see how others group them differently and what kinds of transcriptions those groupings lead to. Maybe it would be cool to build a tool to move these around and auto-generate a transcription for each grouping.