24-04-2017, 05:15 AM
(23-04-2017, 12:14 AM)Anton wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view....
One extravagant possibility, of course, is that all folios of the VMS had their upper margin cropped at some time after they were put down. Does that sound plausible? I doubt so.
It's completely plausible. As I mentioned above, I noticed this on quite a few manuscripts that I was browsing in the Vatican library (also some in the British Library).
It's not uncommon for a side, a top, or a bottom to be trimmed to fit the binding, sometimes for the whole manuscript.