VMs: Calligraphy and separate bifolios...?

[Nick Pelling <incoming@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi everyone,

At 09:10 22/06/2004 -0500, Jan wrote:
> Absolutely.   The pen was made as shown here
>  http://medievalwriting.50megs.com/tools/quill.htm

        The nib was then ready for use. As it broke or became worn,
        it could be resharpened multiple times just using that handy
        little [pen-]knife. Calligraphers sometimes derive great
        satisfaction by examining ancient manuscripts to see how
        many times the scribe sharpened his quill.

Interesting: now that we have excellent quality images, perhaps it might be 
time to look closely for evidence of one long-standing hypothesis - that 
each bifolio was written separately.

From the subtle bleed-across in the drawn ink (ie, not paint) from f2v to 
f3r, I think that we can reasonably conclude that these two facing pages in 
quire 1 were probably adjacent at (or near to) the original time of 
construction. My question is simply this: from looking at f2v, was f3r (on 
the facing page) written next, or was f7r (on the other half of the 
bifolio) written next?

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

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