23-06-2026, 08:19 PM
(23-06-2026, 04:40 PM)Aga Tentakulus wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.But I can imagine it being a self-sign of the cross: a sign in the air, on the forehead and chest, left and right.
Indeed, AFAIK that is what the crosses mean in similar charms seen in other manuscripts. Points along the reading where one should do the sign of the cross.
And I believe that whoever wrote those lines was trying to restore the text that had been wiped out with the water spill. My guess is that he saw a pair of smudges that looked like crosses, "deduced" that the text was a charm, and that hunch guided the rest of his "restoration". In particular, he "restored" some other smudges as "maria", and added more crosses where he though they would have been in a charm. But he still could not produce a text that made sense.
All the best, --stolfi