(30-03-2016, 08:20 PM)david wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.Indeed, if accepted by consensus, this would make the proposed reordering of Q13 moot, as it turns the 78-81 from being a centerfold to just being the most obvious of them all.
Not really.
I should start by saying that I am entirely open to the possibility that your proposition about each bifolio having internal coherence and telling a sort of mini-story within the balneo section, may be correct.
However this in itself is a reordering, as it is different from the order in which the folios presently appear.
Furthermore, even in the scenario you describe, there must be a first bifolio to the "balneo section", and therefore ordering is not moot at all.
Which bifolio was placed first? 76-83 makes the most sense to me, because 76r is the only text-only page. It would appear as a good intro to the section, whichever way we believe the rest of it is organized.
Or are you suggesting that these were never meant to be bound together with the rest of the manuscript, but that each bifolio was meant as an entirely standalone sort of pamphlet?