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[Jorge_Stolfi]

But just for fun, I'd really be interested to know, because I'm not sure. Who can say how this 8 was written with a quill pen? Where did it start, which path did the quill take, and where did the letter end? Was it written in one continuous stroke, or not? It is the 8 in porta8

The resolution is not sufficient to say for sure.  I think I see three (slow) strokes.

But, in my view, all the text on that page was originally Voynichese. Most of it got washed off by the big water spill and its mopping-up, leaving only the oror Sheey at the corner.  Then the desperate owner tried to restore that text.  But he did not know the Voynichese alphabet, and guessed that it was a charm in Latin letters... He guessed some letters, but could not make sense of them as words, either...

All the best, --stolfi