28-11-2018, 12:01 AM
(27-11-2018, 09:37 PM)-JKP- wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.I did not know that there is no other instance where the page numbering comes into contact with page content. I have studied the shapes of the folio numbers quite extensively but I have not looked for overlaps. It's a big manuscript, there are zillions of details. It's impossible to study all of them, so I chose a few areas in which I am particularly interested and I focus on those. I've barely looked at the "biological" section compared to the plants and zodiac figures and I haven't really studied overlaps yet except for the text between the legs of the zodiac figures (there are many different kinds of overlaps in the VMS, some of them probably worth studying).
It looks like, when numbering the pages, great care was taken to avoid contact with the page contents. For example, when the page corner was occupied, they would move the number to the first free space on the left. The only exception is page You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. where we find contact with a shield or bulb (itself completely disconnected from the plant below) and where we also find genuine marginalia handwriting. Note that there was plenty of free space in the corner of 17r so contact could have been easily avoided. Pending further investigation, it is logical to suspect that the drawing is also marginalia. In fact, a possible motive for making contact could have been to draw attention to the importance of the shield.