ORIGINAL stains on the vellum

[Jorge_Stolfi]

All that shows, is that the stain was there before the scribe reached that word.  Whether the stain was on the blank vellum ( second-grade vellum )  or the scribe was not cognizant of the danger of eating a hot-dog with relish over an unfinished manuscript ( messy scribe ).cannot be decided.

Yeah, true.  And all we can say is that there is at least one cow in Scotland that is black on the left side.

All the best, --stolfi 

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But even the observation that the spot was avoided by the word cheey seems far from certain.Similar vertical mini-jumps appear throughout the text for no obvious reason.

Well, it is not just the shift of the baseline, but the size of the ee  too.

All the best, --stolfi