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What do the later additions say?

Asked 28 Oct 2026 by ·Part of What is the object, and who made it?·0 answers·0·0 following
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Zodiac calendar: count figures per sign and compare with days, decans and medieval calendar schemes; read the month names' spelling for dialect.
~8 h
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Later additions: gather the readings of the f116v marginalia, the month names and the erased f1r signature from the literature and the 2024 multispectral images, with a palaeographic date for each hand.
~8 h
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External records: search Prague, Milan and Padua inventories and letters of c. 1400-1610 for descriptions of a book like this.
~20 h
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