VMs: Re: Past reordering of the manuscript

[Rene Zandbergen <r_zandbergen@xxxxxxxxx>]

Dear all,

as part of a general update, I have added
some graphic views of the page collation
of the MS, including how the pages fold,
at the quire-by-quire description of the VMs,
accessible by clicking on the 'PAGES' button
anywhere in the site.

(I also added an article by D'Imperio on cluster
analysis of the VMs, origially HTML-ised by
Mike Roe - accessible through the 'extra
material' page).

--- John Grove <John@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Here's my view... (which I believe to be a single
> view in its entirety)
> 
> 1. The quire signatures give us the best ordering
> of segments (except for
> 19 and 20 - which I don't think are original quire
> signatures).
> 2. Quire 9 is one folio out of place as the quire
> signature should be on
> the last reverse folio (not the first recto). The
> symmetry of the graphic
> layout makes more sense as well when you shift it
> back into position.

Except for the fact that the folio number is
then also out-of-place. Thus, the current 
suggested incorrect binding order would already
be quite old (specifically before the suspected
rebinding in the Collegio Romano).

> 3. -- Several folios fell out and were placed back
> in where somebody
> thought the images seemed to fit -- Then to make
> sure they knew the order
> the next time the threads gave they numbered the
> folios in the top right
> corner. The order has stayed the same ever since.
> The numbering took place
> before the pages were 'cut' out and sent to Kircher,
> assuming he didn't return those.

_If_ anything was cut and sent to Kircher, of
course.

Possibly, f94 and f95 were once cut loose from
each other, and rebound together. One would then
expect, though, that some other stub should also
be visible between 95 and 96, or between 94 and 93.

> 4. In the 1920's several pages went missing.
> 
> http://www.morewood.net/voynich/vmsquires.html
> needs to be reworked, but
> presents some reshuffling I've done in my mind. I
> like to think the author
> kept A-language and B-language sets in separate
> quires, so if a quire
> signature is on a 'B' folio - I want to see the
> whole quire be 'B'
> language. -- Note, this is imposing an assumption on
> the VMS which is not necessarily there.

Quires 15 and 17 are also interesting, as each
has a bifolio with a foldout containing herbal
illustrations. One is in language A and one in 
language B. All other herbal illustations are
on normal-sized sheets.

Cheers, Rene



		
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