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Yes, the Repairman thought that the first and second lines were a spell or charm, and "restored" them as such. But those two lines are definitely not meaningful, and AFAIK there is no other manuscript with a spell or charm that matches them, even partially.

So, was he translating the text? Or trying to decipher it based on the similarity of the letters? Or was he actually tracing the erased outlines of the letters?

But there is no precedent for this supposed effect (a person changing the way he writes Latin letters after writing some other script).

I suggested that you try it yourself as an experiment. In the case of Voynichese, the scribe might simply have liked writing the letters in that style, and he transposed it into the Latin script. Or maybe none of that. Sometimes the Latin alphabet itself is somewhat reminiscent of Voynichese. For example, here is a similarity between ct/ci and ch.