VMs: Numbering Oaf!

["John Grove" <4groves@xxxxxxxxx>]

Okay, so the pepperoni and hot peppers aren't so sure a bet after all!

	A quick comment to the lazy oaf that numbered the pages way back when...
"Open the fold-outs before you count!"

For starters, the book was most definitely bound when this individual
numbered
the folios. Folio numbering would have been a simple process of simply
applying
a number to the top right hand corner of each recto page - Simple right! Any
moron could do that. But the lack of the specific quote above caused for a
few
numbering foul-ups.

Secondly, the book was bound in its present order at the time of numbering.
I
guess we can't blame the numbering oaf for having the pages in the wrong
order and
at least we know that he had actually numbered 8 more pages 12, 74 &
91,92,97,98,109,110.

However any large fold-out pages were folded in on themselves much like we
would
do today to folder a letter to put it in an envelope - resulting in these
'upper
right recto numbers' being applied to the #v2 page.

Now, what do you think he did when he got to the large fold-out! He counted
it twice
because it looked like two consecutive recto's. This means that the total
count of recto pages
is at least one off the mark - to 115 vice 116, although if some of the
missing pages are large
fold-outs who knows?

Back to the quire numbers -- they should always be on the last verso page of
a quire which
means that at least quire #9 is a little messed up in its order. I've
suggested before
that the quire open up with 67r2 and finish with 67r1 which I think is
possible if folded
correctly -- I'll have to check that again.


I might be a little off on the 'quarter'-page count being included in the
quire numbering...
I'll have to work on that theory a little more, me thinks.

Nonetheless - folio 74 is no doubt a larger fold-out and the page number is
likely located
on 74v2 while the quire mark is probably on 74v1.

John.