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[Jorge_Stolfi]

It comes from the Latin: “putri-” = rotten, decaying, and the suffix “-fer” = carrying, producing.  So, producing Putrefaction = farting

Good try, but is there any example of that word having been used with that meaning in any Medieval manuscript?  O with any meaning?

Just because we understand some of what Charms is all about doesn't mean it's nonsense...

But we don't recognize any of the words in that "charm" except "maria" (which is not capitalized -- would that be acceptable?).  The words don't even sound like Latin.  (Unless it is from the Latin edition of Asterix -- I must still have it somewhere...)

It’s completely beyond me why someone who has the entire text of the VMS right in front of them would suddenly get the idea to draw crosses in an attempt to reconstruct it, when there aren’t a single cross between any words in the whole manuscript????

That one is easy: because the clod who was trying to repair the damage had spent zero time studying the text of the manuscript.  

And he did not have "the entire text of the VMS in front of them".  The book was bound, so the only thing he could see was page f116v.

And we can turn the question around: if the text is original, why would the Author suddenly get the idea of writing marginal notes in Latin script with Christian crosses between words, when there is not a single word in that script or any cross or Christian imagery anywhere else in the whole manuscript?

All the best, --stolfi