Hi Emma,
I went through your analysis, comparing Takahashi's transcription and with the scans of the ms.
Here are my observations. I don't think I could add much of potential use. Your analysis seems excellent to me. There is a very high correlation between stars and recipe boundaries, but there are a few exceptions and dubious cases.
f103r - 19 stars, 18 recipes
III - 8-12 (5 lines): Possibly two recipes to account for extra star, but no obvious break.
The red star corresponds rather precisely with line 9, bu the first word (oteeos) does not seem like a candidate as the first of a recipe. I agree that considering this as a paragraph with an extra star is the best option.
f103v - 14 stars, 13 recipes
VII - 20-26 (7 lines): Are there two paragraphs here?
Recipe VII could include only line 20. Line 21 beginning with tokain could be the first of a new recipe. It is dubious.
Takahashi's transcription has some anomalies in line numbering (lines 28a, 36a): I can't see why, since all lines seem pretty regular to me.
f105r - 10 stars, 10 recipes - Complete
III - 10-12 (3 lines): Including short line written above.
X - 34-36 (3 lines):
Takahashi's lists 37 lines. He also counts separately the very last short line (which is centered, not aligned to the left). I think the 10 recipes are OK. Maybe we could list III has having 4 lines (counting the short line as well?).
f108r - 16 stars, 14 recipes
III - 8-13 (6 lines): Almost certainly two paragraphs, 8-10 and 11-13?
XII - 39-44 (6 lines): Likely two paragraphs, 39-40 and 41-44?
Takahashi splits III (he has a paragraph-end marker on line 10). I wonder why it did so, but that does fit with the position of the white star at the beginning of line 11.
Same for XII: Takahashi splits it in two. Possibly the way in which lines 40 and 41 diverge is what makes that point a likely paragraph boundary?
I think we could go on and split the two paragraphs as you suggested, so that we match the number of stars.
f103r - 19 stars, 18 recipes
III - 8-12 (5 lines): Possibly two recipes to account for extra star, but no obvious break.
The red star corresponds rather precisely with line 9, bu the first word (oteeos) does not seem like a candidate as the first of a recipe. I agree that considering this as a paragraph with an extra star is the best option.
f103v - 14 stars, 13 recipes
VII - 20-26 (7 lines): Are there two paragraphs here?
Recipe VII could include only line 20. Line 21 beginning with tokain could be the first of a new recipe. It is dubious.
Takahashi's transcription has some anomalies in line numbering (lines 28a, 36a): I can't see why, since all lines seem pretty regular to me.
f105r - 10 stars, 10 recipes - Complete
III - 10-12 (3 lines): Including short line written above.
X - 34-36 (3 lines):
Takahashi's lists 37 lines. He also counts separately the very last short line (which is centered, not aligned to the left). I think the 10 recipes are OK. Maybe we could list III has having 4 lines (counting the short line as well?).
f108r - 16 stars, 14 recipes
III - 8-13 (6 lines): Almost certainly two paragraphs, 8-10 and 11-13?
XII - 39-44 (6 lines): Likely two paragraphs, 39-40 and 41-44?
Takahashi splits III (he has a paragraph-end marker on line 10). I wonder why it did so, but that does fit with the position of the white star at the beginning of line 11.
Same for XII: Takahashi splits it in two. Possibly the way in which lines 40 and 41 diverge is what makes that point a likely paragraph boundary?
I think we could go on and split the two paragraphs as you suggested, so that we match the number of stars.
f108v - 16 stars, 14 recipes
VI - 20-29 (10 lines): May be three paragraphs, but no obvious breaks.
Takahashi splits it in two (20-27,28-29 – I ignore that he also lists line 27 as 26a).
Line 28 starts with a good candidate “pororaiin”, but it does not match any of the two extra stars. I can't see of any way of meaningfully solving this situation.
f111r - 17 stars, 5 recipes
II - 6-35 (30 lines): Multiple paragraphs
III - 36-43 (8 lines): May be two paragraphs
V - 48-54 (7 lines): May be two paragraphs
II: no idea.
III: the star could suggest a split at line 39 (starting with “saiin”). Very dubious. You are not allowed to view links.
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V: Takahashi splits it in two (48-50,51-54). Line 51 has a red star and starts with a very good candidate: “polkeeo”. I think this recipe can be split this way.
f111v - 19 stars, 7 recipes
I - 1-25 (25 lines): Multiple paragraphs
III - 29-33 (5 lines): May be more than one paragraph
V - 37-44 (8 lines): May be more than one paragraph
I: this recipe has 10 stars, but it seems impossible to split. It might as well be a single anomalous recipe.
III: this paragraph has three stars. The stars and the initials could allow a splitting into three recipes (29-30,31,32-33) starting with gallows: polkiin, pochey, tar.
V: two stars. Considering that line 38 is slightly shorter and line 39 is marked by the second star, it could maybe be split into (37-38, 39-44). The starting word of line 39 is not particularly appropriate (dsheey), but see also You are not allowed to view links.
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f112r - 12 stars, 12 recipes - Complete
Takahashi has fewer paragraphs. He ignores the second star and has lines 1-10 as a single paragraph. He also ignores the last two stars and has lines 37-45 as a single paragraph. Your proposal seems to me much preferable.
f112v - 13 stars, 13 recipes - Complete
Takahashi differs also in this case. He also counts 13 paragraphs, but they don't match the stars. He counts three paragraphs (instead of two) for lines 20-26. He counts the last 6 lines as a single paragraph (instead of two).
f113r - 16 stars, 16 recipes
IX - 25-26 (2 lines)
XVI - 45-51 (7 lines): May be two paragraphs.
Takahashi's count is similar. The last recipe has two stars and there is no star at line 25, but I have nothing different to suggest.
f114r - 13 stars, 13 recipes - Complete
Takahashi counts 4-10 as a single paragraph. They are clearly two distinct paragraphs, as stated in your analysis.
f114v - 12 stars, 12 recipes - Complete
Takahashi counts 6-10 as a single paragraph. Splitting it into two seems OK to me: it fits the position of the star on line 8 and the first word of line 8 is also OK (pchedchdy).
f116r - 10 stars, 6 recipes
IV - 10-14 (5 lines): Two paragraphs for two stars?
VI - 18-30 (13 lines): Multiple paragraphs
Takahashi also counts 10-14 as a single paragraph. There is an unaccounted star, but it's difficult to say if there is a recipe starting on line 12 or 13. I think the initial of 13 (sarain) is a better candidate than that of 12 (quoain) but both are dubious.
Takahashi counts 18-30 as a single paragraph. There are four stars corresponding to these lines, but they are very hard to split.
I also agree that the following star-less long paragraph starting at 31 doesn't seem to fit with the rest.