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[Gavin Güldenpfennig]

It's not poxleder.

It is very clearly a Gothic "b" where you have a "d". No one wrote "d" like that and many wrote "b" like that.

I cannot tell if the last letter is "r" or "n" because it's faded or rubbed. It's not clear.

poxleben or poxleber (and there's some dispute about the x because the ink blobbed and filled in, but I think it looks like x).

You are mixing up Gothic "d" and "b" (getting them backwards) because in the oladabas word you read the "d" (which is a normal "d") as "b", but no one wrote b like that.

Both the "d" and "b" are written in a typical way for the time so I'm not sure why you are reversing them.

I cannot explain, why I´m thinking that the writer has changed b- and d- shapes into each other. But their some "b" and "d" in the past, that are look like the other one.

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So we cannot be entirely sure in my opinion, which one is which.

But "poxleber" and "olad(a/i)bas" aren´t words with a clear translation in any language, so I would prefer to read "poxleder" and "olabidas", which gives us a word which means "vellum" in German "Bocksleder / Kalbsleder". This is directly connected to the VMS material. And if you read "poxleder" you must also read "oladibas" which gives us the name of a small river, which is quite important from the Basque mythology. ("Oladibae")

Reading the VMS doesn´t mean reading the letters, at all...

Imagine, that you´re in hypnosis, trance or near to death. Would you write everything correct? Could you decide which letter is which one? I think, I couldn´t do this. It´s only an example, it could be something other behind that letter shapes.