VMs: A & B Tokens and Titles....

["John Grove" <John@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

	Morning all,

		GC's look into the A & B type words and points about certain pages being
added to at a later-time doesn't quite line up with the A&B layout (unless
of course
it is more interlaced on each page).

		All B-tokenized pages just happen to be attached to a B-tokenized
sheet of vellum. That is if one looks through the Herbal-A pages and finds
one B-tokenized
page, you won't be surprised to find that the other end of that sheet of
vellum is
also a B-tokenized page. If the B-tokens were the result of later additions,
then both
haves of the sheet were added at the same time. When we reach folio 26 we
hit our first
B-tokenized page stuck in amongst a quire of A-tokenized pages - with
ofcourse its other
half at folio 31 being the only other B-tokenized page in the quire.

		So if B-tokens were the result of later additions, then the additions
amounted
to four full pages (26r/v and 31r/v) to this quire. While going through a
quick review of
the folio layout (again) and noting (again) that the quires don't make sense
with the
folio numbering although I have no doubt whatsoever that the quire markings
are much older
than the folio numbering - but both were done a few centuries ago.

		Interesting to note that the 'titles' don't always show up at the
beginning
of a quire though.

f1r = 4 titles
(and the other half of the vellum) f8r has another 3 titles.

f9r = 1 title
(and the other half of the vellum) f16r had another one.

f17 doesn't have any titles - but f18r, f19v, f22v and f24r have single
titles.

f25r, f27r, f28v and the 'B' folio f31r have single titles.

The only title in the next quire is on the quire marked page f40v.

f41 is a 'B' folio and no title - but has a couple of heads,
but f42r has three titles, and f42v has another two.

f49r doesn't have a title but has snakes while f49v has the side lined
'code'.

Well, that's about all I can push out for today -- gotta get to household
chores like
painting windows and other fun stuff !

John.
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