RE: VMs: RE: Writing in plant illustrations

["John Grove" <John@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

>The foliator simply flipped through the top right of the
>codex
>sitting in front of him happily numbering away without any time spent
>unfolding
>the folios folded in on themselves or checking to make sure the pages were
>in the
>right place or the quires were aligned properly, etc...

 From the misplaced quire signatures, I think that would be a good
description of how the quirator tackled the job - but I don't think it
would be fair on the foliator, because he/she did correct the orientation
of several of the reversed quires before adding the foliation. :-)

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

	For my part, I'm not convinced the quires have been corrected in any sense.
Quire 9 is most logically (look at the images) in the right order only if
you shift
the whole quire one place to the left and end up with the quire signature at
the end of the quire where it would have naturally been. The title page of
that quire
is currently hanging out as a foldout. Here's the order that seems most
logical to me:

	f67r2 is the opening page of the quire and should be the first recto page.
	The central star in that diagram corresponds with the central spiral of the
verso
	67v2 which would obviously be next if 67r2 was the first recto page.

	Then comes 67v1 Sun Circle which is an opening bracket in the next pattern.
		68r1 Sun
		68r2 Moon
	Then the closing bracket of this pattern 68r3 with the Moon Circle (and
Pleiades).

	68v3 and 68v2 - don't really see the Sun/Moon pattern here but they are
obviously
	flowing along the quire with the rest of the images quite nicely.

	Finally... and in my eyes most importantly, the next two images MUST go
together
	f68v1 Sun followed by the closing Last verso page with a quire marking
	f67r1 MOON.

	As for Quire 20... There is no logic to the location of the number 20. It's
in the
wrong physical location on the page. It should be on the right side - let
alone on the
last verso page of the quire.

	John.
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