[Blog Post] Page numbering was done by at least 4 scribes.

[Wladimir D]

Finally, I finished a blog dedicated to numbers. You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.

I would be grateful for examples indicating the territories where the ordinal number octavus is written through U, W, V.

[Aga Tentakulus]

   
I was just there and read it. I think you have some thinking errors.
Here it has nothing to do with the ending "us". It's just numbers 29,39,49

With the written "nig + zig + cig"...
So they are numbers in words. Example: zwanzig, dreisig, vierzig ...  twenty, thirty, forty.
Here, as an example, "2zig"= zwanzig twenty.

"nig" is an Allemanic variant. "10nig" zänig  is a number.
In Switzerland it is sometimes still used, rarely, but it is there.

[Wladimir D]

What you highlighted with a red circle is an insert from vms. The numbering of sections in the proposed manuscript is duplicated in words.

[Helmut Winkler]

Since I have to read W.s blog with the help of a translation tool, I'll read it again tomorrow, when I am less sleepy.

Just two remarks:

1) I am not sure everyone is aware of the fact, that the quire numbers are somewhere late 15th c. and the foliation is a lot later, maybe (I think so) as late as the 17th c.

2) If you write octavus or  octauus is a question off the script you are using, it is nothing to do with region or dialect, common for the 15th c. is the writing with u, the v goes nearly out of use, the humanists used it more again, but you can have a mixed use as well as you can see in the ms. you are quoting

As I have said before, I am very doubtful re different scribes, the numerals used on the quires could well be from the original scribe, the foliation is sure from a different scribe and there are the marginalia and 116v of course

[Wladimir D]

Thanks Helmut.
Explanation
The numbers of the hands (3 in total) that numbered the notebooks do not correspond to the numbers of the hands that numbered the pages (4+?).

[Koen G]

In what kind of situation would so many people number the pages? This sounds extremely unlikely to me - if you start numbering something, wouldn't you number it all the way through?

[Wladimir D]

For example, if the page number was used as a "quality mark" (personal signature) when checking the text by different people. And in the case of tricky coding, this is a time-consuming process. There were revisions and corrections!