RE: VMs: Possible explanation for Quire 20...

[Nick Pelling <incoming@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi John,

At 08:29 29/06/2004 -0400, John Grove wrote:
>         You've been suggesting that Quire 20 was bound inside out. 
> Wouldn't this
> put 116v in a rather awkward location? I would tend to think that 116v is
> the actually last verso of the VMS, and because it is the last quire didn't
> require a quire mark. It appears to me that 116r is the last piece of VMS
> content written, and 116v has the last drawings.

OK... I hadn't really thought about 116v, so you're almost certainly right 
- f116v probably is the last page. Consider the "Q20 inside-out hypothesis" 
well & truly dropped. :-)

>         What if... Each bifolio was written separately, but sequentially 
> within the
> bifolio... such that the author wrote f103r, flipped the vellum wrote f103v,
> flipped the vellum wrote f116r, and flipped the vellum and drew some
> pictures on f116v then died (or got bored or had nothing further to say).

The order pages were written in is a thing we really ought to be able to 
quantify and test - and not just in the herbal section. For example, in the 
balneo section, we have two halves of a single picture on different 
bifolios - are the two halves' writings more similar to each other than to 
writings on the other half of each one's respective bifolio? [*]

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

[*] I'm sure this last sentence would read much better in German... :-) 


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