VMs: Balneological section order ideas...? (revised, sorry)

[Nick Pelling <incoming@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi everyone,

Here are some observations relating to what the correct order of bifolios 
in the balneological section should be. Firstly, the current order is:-

				[B1] f75
			[B2] f76
		[B3] f77
	[B4] f78
[B5] f79
[B5] f80
	[B4] f81
		[B3] f82
			[B2] f83
				[B1] f84

(1) f81r and f78v should almost certainly be side-by-side, as there are two 
left-to-right water flows (across the central "gutter"!) between the two. 
So: [B4] should probably be the centrefold of the quire, not [B5].

(2) f78r should face f84v (the pair of pineapple mayweeds should be 
adjacent in the top centre). In fact, the two pages are (structurally) a 
mirror image of each other - each has two pools with 7 and 8 nymphs in, 
respectively. This would make [B1] the second-to-central bifolio in the quire.

(3) I suspect that f77v should be next to f79r - the nymph on the right of 
f77v looks to be in a mirror position across the gutter from a similar 
nymph on the left of f79r. If correct, this would make [B3] and [B5] 
neighbouring bifolios.

(4) My final guess is that the all-text page (f76r) was the first page of 
the quire, which would make [B2] the outermost bifolio. It's just a hunch, 
which I'm sure that other people will be able to prove or disprove more 
constructively than I've done.

Put it all together, and my (current) predicted bifolio order for quire 13 
is [B2], [B3], [B5], [B1], [B4] - ie:-

				[B2] f76
			[B3] f77			[*]
		[B5] f79
	[B1] f75					[*]
[B4] f78
[B4] f81
	[B1] f84					[*]
		[B5] f80
			[B3] f82			[*]
				[B2] f83

Comments? :-)

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

PS: my four corrections (from the original posting) are marked [*]

PS: normally, I'd have printed these bifolios out and tried this by hand to 
double-check the theory, but my printer has run out of ink. ;-(

PPS: is that a stone/brick floor I can see in the bottom-left corner of the 
bottom-right bath on f78r? 


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