Re: VMs: RE: Yet another page

[Nick Pelling <incoming@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi John,

At 05:50 24/07/2003 -0400, John Grove wrote:
> Also, if the content was written on separate sheets of vellum before
> being bound (which I agree it probably was), then the question as to
> whether the author foresaw the quire ordering and made the opening
> page distinct from the closing pages. Page one is the introduction to
> a subject, but page 8 (on the same sheet) would be the conclusion -
> unless the text is supposed to be read on separate sheets - Read page
> one, then page 8, then page 2 - then page 7?

I'm quite sure (from all the subtle bleed-across) that the folios in the 
first quire are in the same order that they were in when it was painted up 
- from that, I infer that they're probably in the correct order.

Quick aside: could you infer that some (or perhaps all?) of the painting 
was done *after* it had been bound into quires? Is there evidence to prove 
or disprove this hypothesis?

The only pages in the original quire 1, then, with right-justified titles 
are f1r (which has 4) and f8r (which has 3 or 4, depending on how you view 
line 2), on the same bifolio. But however you fold that bifolio, one will 
be on the inside & one will be on the outside - what explanation could 
there be for that?

That this might be a genuine phenomenon would seem to be confirmed by quire 
2: the only title-like strings there are on pages f9r (bottom line) and 
f16r (fourth line) - which are also on alternate sides of the same 
outermost bifolio of the quire.

This pattern doesn't seem to hold elsewhere (though I haven't checked 
exhaustively), but it's interesting all the same... :-o

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


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