RE: VMs: RE: Writing in plant illustrations

[Nick Pelling <incoming@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi everyone,

At 09:19 20/06/2004 -0400, John Grove wrote:
>         Why would the foliator skip the sequential pages of what might have
> been purposely left out? Take Quire 8 with the missing folio numerals for
> 59 through 64; That's 6 recto pages on possibly 6 bifolios.

...more likely 3 bifolios?

> Since we know
> the foliation runs along the current order of the book - those pages had
> to have been there when the numbers were added [ unless for some unknown
> reason - the foliator decided to skip the sequence of numbers ].

I don't know what you think, but I think there appears to be a little 
bleed-across from the missing f59r onto the right hand side of f58v. What 
little evidence we have surely points to the foliator having added the 
foliation honestly, in line with what he/she was looking at - and therefore 
to pages having been removed/lost subsequently. Why are people so paranoid 
about something so straightforward?

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

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