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And both really are "moy", not a smudged "may". Both are supposedly from different centuries. Assuming that both are mistakes, it shows that those mistakes can happen even from a less likely 'a' -> 'o', and even in a richly illuminated header. 

Not sure if they are mistakes. The pronunciation of "oi" = "oy" could be "é" or "oué". Pronunciation and orthography evolved. The conjugated verbs ending with "ois", "oit" are nowadays written "ais", "ait", pronounced "è".

Before the spelling reform in the third decade of the 19th century, [the verb "could"] was written "pourroit" but pronounced "pourrè." In Old French, the diphthongs oi/ai/ei were interchangeable and varied according to region and dialect.

Avant la réforme de l'orthographe dans la troisième décennie du XIXe siècle, on écrivait pourroit, mais on disait pourrè. En ancien français, les diphthongues oi/ai/ei étaient interchangeables et variaient selon la région et le dialecte.

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