RE: VMs: Repeats and Blitherings

[Nick Pelling <incoming@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi John,

At 22:06 23/06/2004 -0400, John Grove wrote:
>         One thing that still bothers me... if the quire signatures were not
> those of the author, then by what means did the author keep the pages/quires
> aligned?

Perhaps there's a quire number encoded within the page - perhaps within the 
page-initial Neal key on the first page of a quire? Just a thought. :-)

> Quire signatures or ... what the heck are those words called again -- the
> last
> word on one page is the same as the first on the following page.

Catchwords. BTW, here's a nice table showing "A short history of the 
quire", which describes vertical catchwords on "The Humanistic Quire, 
starting in Florence, c.1400":-
        http://www.manuscripts.org.uk/tools/quire.htm

> Unfortunately, we know it was done after the current binding order took
> place
> but before the missing pages were cut out or lost, so once again the author
> didn't
> seem to use any form of pagination - I think that was common practice though
> wasn't it?

Or perhaps the original author(s) didn't see any need for quiration or 
pagination? Perhaps either might have compromised the design aim - 
*inscrutability*. :-)

> John (with the h) Grove. I have to add that my family thinks it is quite weird
> that two people with very similar names have such a bizarre hobby.

Similarly, there are at least three <Nicholas John Pelling>s playing club 
chess in the UK. I wouldn't mind, but the other two's losses consistently 
drag my rating down. :-o

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


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