[split] Big f116v spillover thread.

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I personally also don't believe it could be a decipherment attempt as handwriting analysis puts the marginalia between 1400-1425, so personally, I believe that it was most likely one of the original scribes.

Perhaps someone decided to see if they could decipher the recipe
I can imagine a scene like this (I'm not making any claims, just having fun): Perhaps the peculiarities of Currier B and its differences from Currier A were due to the author's incorrect encryption of the text. The author of the manuscript decided to approach their subject, read what they had encrypted, and encourage them to attempt to decipher it. Realizing their failure, they became despondent...

I don't entirely understand what you mean by this, how exactly is me pointing out when when writing '+' in one stroke, it ends up looking like 4, interesting? Could you please clarify on this?

Perhaps this explains a little of the essence of the q. I like the interpretation of it as a cross better than the identification with the four.

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Nope. You are overestimating the range of German swearwords. Never heard of something coming even nearly to that.

You know better
They used to swear in different ways. In fact, it was defined as a swear word in the corresponding discussion