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You don't need to guess at the meaning, it's written in Latin, just translate it! Ai is good at that. It seems to be a technical manuscript on geomancy. The first page reads
"Incipit liber geomantie nove magistri Ugonis Satiliensis, editus ab Alantrabuluci [translatione]. Estimaverunt Indi quod quando lineantur venie absque numero..."
Here begins the book of the new geomancy by Master Hugh of Santalla, produced from the translation of Al-Tarabulusi. The Indians believed that when lines are drawn without number ...
Here's a first pass at a passage with the symbols:
uiriditas ruffi pollicium Martis quouisome ad signum plurem orbitamet gemini me dicitur enthimema. ut in tlagua gbonn per omnibus ad id ad hunc in octavo caelo ad offerendum idem determinationem hic respondenti dicitur dictium quod id illuc secundum quod quoddam est nota gnomomma ut martis cuius ensis gradus dicit quod non in necessitate tonis omnibus a d a equor dicitur canicula. quarta bo in quarto tercia uel peradiucta uel dispone fiam tertiam azimutam artifex qui uult reportare figuram zodiaci. dispones per gamo(m) albias duales literas.
figure sequens habebit.
The greenness of the reddish inches of Mars, wherever it may be directed toward a greater sign, is called the path of Gemini, an entry. Just as in the table for all things toward that point, to this point in the eighth heaven (the celestial sphere of fixed stars), for presenting the very same calculation, it is stated here to the respondent that this is said down there according to what is a certain notable index (gnomon), like Mars whose sword-hilt degree says that not out of necessity of the pitch is it called equal for all from A to A, namely Canicula (the Dog Star, Sirius). The fourth part in the fourth, the third either added alongside or arrange to become a third azimuth; the artisan who wishes to copy down the figure of the zodiac, you will arrange the twin white letters by means of the scale.
These figures demonstrate this:
"Incipit liber geomantie nove magistri Ugonis Satiliensis, editus ab Alantrabuluci [translatione]. Estimaverunt Indi quod quando lineantur venie absque numero..."
Here begins the book of the new geomancy by Master Hugh of Santalla, produced from the translation of Al-Tarabulusi. The Indians believed that when lines are drawn without number ...
Here's a first pass at a passage with the symbols:
uiriditas ruffi pollicium Martis quouisome ad signum plurem orbitamet gemini me dicitur enthimema. ut in tlagua gbonn per omnibus ad id ad hunc in octavo caelo ad offerendum idem determinationem hic respondenti dicitur dictium quod id illuc secundum quod quoddam est nota gnomomma ut martis cuius ensis gradus dicit quod non in necessitate tonis omnibus a d a equor dicitur canicula. quarta bo in quarto tercia uel peradiucta uel dispone fiam tertiam azimutam artifex qui uult reportare figuram zodiaci. dispones per gamo(m) albias duales literas.
figure sequens habebit.
The greenness of the reddish inches of Mars, wherever it may be directed toward a greater sign, is called the path of Gemini, an entry. Just as in the table for all things toward that point, to this point in the eighth heaven (the celestial sphere of fixed stars), for presenting the very same calculation, it is stated here to the respondent that this is said down there according to what is a certain notable index (gnomon), like Mars whose sword-hilt degree says that not out of necessity of the pitch is it called equal for all from A to A, namely Canicula (the Dog Star, Sirius). The fourth part in the fourth, the third either added alongside or arrange to become a third azimuth; the artisan who wishes to copy down the figure of the zodiac, you will arrange the twin white letters by means of the scale.
These figures demonstrate this: