Period of Original Use

[Linda]

@ Linda

I think you are right in saying tnat the ms.  was kept for some time in 
'packets'

I don't think ther was an intended order before the ms. was started, I think the ms.is a composite ms., a Sammelhandschrift of the assorted 'files' of the author

I meant that quire 14 was its own thing, quire 13 was its own thing, etc. By packet i just mean folded pages. Some of the quires were probably combined, like the zodiac with the other circle drawings.

yes, I think so too

Actually quire 13 might have been kept with quire 14, i think they inform each other. 

When i said order, i meant within packets, for instance i think both quire 14 and 13 when folded originally had only text on their cover pages.

It is also pretty clear that some quires are really parts of others.

I think you are right, that it was various files by the author. the botanical pages, for instance, may be completely separate from the rest.