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

[Nick Pelling <incoming@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi John,

At 09:53 19/07/2003 -0400, John Grove wrote:
>                 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.

Aside from the mis-aligned diagram in the balneological section, are there 
any other cues we might use in order to determine the most likely original 
quire folio-order?

For example, in the first quire, it looks to me like the top of the plant 
in f3v has bled across to the curve at the top of f4r (opposite) when 
painted, so I guess these were in the same order when the page was painted 
up (which I assume was before the foliation). Similarly for the mark at the 
top of f4v and f5r, and the mark 25% down the page on f5v and f6r. In fact, 
I'd say quire 1 seems pretty rock-solid, order-wise.

The Herbal A and Herbal B folios would seem to suggest that the VMS were 
originally quired by group: but if so, is there any physical evidence to 
support this idea? Basically, is there sufficient evidence there to infer 
what the original order probably was?

Cheers, .....Nick Pelling..... 


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