RE: VMs: F66r

[Rene Zandbergen <r_zandbergen@xxxxxxxxx>]

--- John Grove <John@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> Not sure if anything blows anything out of the
> water...
> There is no doubt 'in my little world' that all the
> bifolio's were written before binding.

Absolutely credible.

> The folio markings were added unfortunately after
> somebody bound the folios together often in the 
> wrong order and not necessarily in the
> right quires. 

I tend to believe this too but have no compelling
evidence (as written in my previous E-mail).

> Quire 9 is the best proof of that. The whole
> bifolio was shifted one 'page' too far to the
> left when bound putting the final verso
> page with the quire number as the first page
> of the quire instead of the last...

Now I see what you mean. That would certainly
explain one of the 'mislaid' quire markings!

> I 'think' the B-language quires should be complete
> B-language quires,
> but again that is a little hard to prove since they
> have been intermixed for some time.

If it is true, it means that all quires are 
really messed up (which could have happened if
the author just left a pile of loose pages and
someone else made a codex out of it later).
It leaves the mystery of quire 8: were there really
three more bifolios, once? 
And why are the remaining ones about different
topics?

> Rats, I've only just begun playing with my new
> quire pages... oh well,
> here's a look at quire 1. I plan on having one for
> each of the quires showing
> the bifolios as in this example as well. 

> http://www.morewood.net/voynich/quire1.html

Nice idea. Took me a while to understand how the
lower images relate to the top one (especially
since the one for f8v+f9r seems inconsistent).

Cheers, Rene


	
		
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