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[Jorge_Stolfi]

So ‘pal8en’ can't be a “d,” or at least it's unlikely.

If your ‘p’ is a ‘v’.
How much did you adjust the settings to turn a ‘v’ into a ‘p’?
I’m asking because I can’t see it in the other scans.
Am I even allowed to adjust anything after the scan?

The descender of the "p" is very clear in the UV image.  
   
The only adjustment mad to that clip was setting the brightness of the whole image so that the vellum looks gray.  That is the minimum adjustment needed to see anything in the scanned image.  

Brightness and contrast adjustments can make faint lines become invisible, but cannot create a line or spot where there is none.  So those letters were definitely "p".

In fact the letters on line 1 that are sometimes read as "u" or "v" seem to be "p" too.  Thus that line probably was "poxleber pinen potpfer".   The last word is often read as "put..." instead of "pot...", but the supposed "u" is closed at the top by a faint line:
   
The only occurrences of "u" or "v" on that text seems to be the "v" of "vix", and some part of the squiggle in the word after "oladabad", which may be "multod" or "umltod" or "uniltod" or "imiltod" or "inultod" or who-knows-what...

All the best, --stolfi