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[JoJo_Jost]

But we don't recognize any of the words in that "charm" except "maria" (which is not capitalized -- would that be acceptable?).  The words don't even sound like Latin.  (Unless it is from the Latin edition of Asterix -- I must still have it somewhere...)

We do, the clear ones:  multos, portas, abiat, maria = Latin
Poxleber, pinen, six, vix, palsen, so nim, mich = german

possible with few assumptions: Putrifer, gaf = (es von / auf)

not clear or with to many assumptions: mchiton, aladabas, tc, cxx, marix, morix, the two Voynich Token, vbren

That one is easy: because the clod who was trying to repair the damage had spent zero time studying the text of the manuscript.  
And he did not have "the entire text of the VMS in front of them".  The book was bound, so the only thing he could see was page f116v.

What you're writingis based on far too many assumptions for my taste. Let’s really assume he spilled the glass of water, then panicked and tried to salvage it. I can go along with that as a possible theory.

But he certainly would have looked at the other pages that in order to restore it better.  Anyone would do that. The idea that he didn’t do that, or that he hasn't other folios is far too implausible to me! In short: The crosses clearly contradict your theory Sorry.

And we can turn the question around: if the text is original, why would the Author suddenly get the idea of writing marginal notes in Latin script with Christian crosses between words, when there is not a single word in that script or any cross or Christian imagery anywhere else in the whole manuscript?

In other Book of the time, there are some marginalia where you wonder what the point is. Even down to sexual innuendos, where you wonder what the monks were doing all day. And some don’t even relate to the book. That’s actually pretty typical for marginalia.