VMs: Re: VMS Quires

[Luis Vélez <legal1@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Perhaps this could be of interest for the Quires/pagination thread:

> Foliation is the numbering of the folios of the manuscript when numbers were
> only assigned to the recto side of a folio. Occasionally used since Antiquity,
> in the twelfth century foliation became a rule. There existed various systems
> of foliation. One of them was to mark folios with a combination of letters,
> numbers, or some other signs (asterisks, dots, circles, crosses, etc.) where
> first the number of a quire was given, and then the number of a folio within
> this single quire: Ai, Aii, Aiii to Aviii, Bi, Bii, etc. These marks were now
> placed in the middle of the bottom margin and sometimes nicely decorated. It
> was not anymore a job of a scribe to indicate the sequence of folios:
> foliation was usually done by a specially appointed person after the copying,
> decoration, and correction had been completed.
> Pagination is a continuous numbering of the pages of a manuscript, when
> numbers were assigned to both recto and verso sides of a folio. Continuous
> pagination throughout (e.g., 1 to 348) first appeared in the thirteenth
> century and became wide-spread in the later Middle Ages.
> In addition to foliation and pagination, for the ease of citation some
> liturgical or theological books numbered the columns of the text (in case that
> there were more than one column on a page) and even lines.

source: 
http://www.ceu.hu/medstud/manual/MMM/index.html

³dain daiin daiiin², Nick?