Marci's letters to Kircher, revisited

[Anton]

It occured to me that if the sequence be read as "Sili", then that element is not a blot, but the main portion of "i", while the smaller element which is currently considered as "i" is just the dot of the "i". In other words, those two are an "enlarged" letter "i". The reason why it appears in this awkward form is that "S" and "l" are obviously written in one pass (dunno what for), leaving no room for a common "i" in between. Hence the "i" is added afterwards, somewhat below the baseline, in an attempt to "fit" it.