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[Jorge_Stolfi]

Have you ever wondered what that strange squiggle is doing there on the right, above the "m" in "chiton"? That small superscript "e" next to an "m" is an abbreviation for "mariae."

On the UV images it very much looks like dirt, not ink.
   

And anyway the scribal abbreviation for the genitive ending "-ae" or "-æ" is a small "e", not a diagonal stroke.

And the beginning of that word could be either "mchi" or "anchi".  

Hieronymus (Jerome), Epistula 64,11, Ad Fabiolam / De veste sacerdotali.

As the title of that letter says, Jerome is describing the garments used by Hebrew priests according to Exodus.  

There is no German or Latin manuscript referring to the Aachen relic as a "chiton", is there?

All the best, --stolfi