Re: VMs: Counting sheep...?

["Maurizio M. Gavioli" <mmg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

At 22:03 29/02/2004 +0000, Nick Pelling wrote:

> Might an experienced person be able to tell (say, from touch?) which side 
> is which? Or, broadly at what order of magnification should the difference 
> between the two be clearly visible?

According to my experience, this is usually visible simply by looking at 
the recto and at the verso (of course, looking at the *real* sheet, not at 
a JPG!). There are more visible and less visible cases, but you quickly get 
the 'feeling' of it.

>  While we've often talked about how the bifolios are in the wrong order, 
> hair-to-hair / flesh-to-flesh might prove an interesting test of 
> different reorderings (such as for the balneological quire).

Hair-to-hair and flesh-to-flesh is usually the 'right' order; i.e. if, say, 
1v is hair, 2r (which is visible at the same time of 1v) should be hair too 
and so on. However, it may happen (albeit less frequently) that a codex was 
originally assembled with the sheets in the 'wrong' order.

Ciao,
        Maurizio


 Maurizio M. Gavioli -  VistaMare  Software
 via San Bernardo 5, I-16030 Pieve Ligure, ITALY
 http://www.vistamaresoft.com/

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