Why and how the text could be Bavarian

[Grove]

I’ve wondered if the paragraph initial gallows were part of setting up the cipher for the page. In my mind, the gallows could count 1-4 to inform which table to begin with counting legs and loops… so f=1, k=2, p=3 and t=4.

Then the first character of the word provides the row, etc.., of course trying to establish stage structure of table, row and column proves extremely difficult because certain characters show up in various parts of a word while others are limited to pre, mid and suffix positions.