31-03-2016, 10:13 PM
I can appreciate why David posted here rather than on the Quire Tasks thread.
There's a difference between discussing observations and possibilities of what may have happened, and getting some feedback, and actually setting up a task for arranging the folios once some consensus (or expert opinion) has been reached.
There appears to have been intent to be a bound book in some sections. The first page is immediately followed by a series of plants and since a recto page is on the right (rather than "beginning" on the left) when the whole thing is viewed flat, the sense of it does not follow naturally unless it is folded and bound, so whoever designed it understood the concept of quires and intended some of the pages to be combined in a conventional way.
The larger pages have always been interesting to me. The way the large pages are arranged suggests to me that the creator cared more about the medium (in this case the size and organization of the medium) reflecting the message than many authors of the time.
There's a difference between discussing observations and possibilities of what may have happened, and getting some feedback, and actually setting up a task for arranging the folios once some consensus (or expert opinion) has been reached.
There appears to have been intent to be a bound book in some sections. The first page is immediately followed by a series of plants and since a recto page is on the right (rather than "beginning" on the left) when the whole thing is viewed flat, the sense of it does not follow naturally unless it is folded and bound, so whoever designed it understood the concept of quires and intended some of the pages to be combined in a conventional way.
The larger pages have always been interesting to me. The way the large pages are arranged suggests to me that the creator cared more about the medium (in this case the size and organization of the medium) reflecting the message than many authors of the time.