31-03-2016, 09:20 AM
I've noticed this too, and if you think about it some more it's clear that it's not just the Bio section that is like this, but the entire manuscript. The bifolios were never intended to be nested within one another. Each one was intended to stand alone as its own "quire".
I don't know whether that was a normal practice for medieval books or not. I imagine that it would be more difficult to bind such a book, which is probably the main reason why the VMS pages are not bound in the correct order.
I don't know whether that was a normal practice for medieval books or not. I imagine that it would be more difficult to bind such a book, which is probably the main reason why the VMS pages are not bound in the correct order.