24-07-2019, 08:19 AM
(This post was last modified: 24-07-2019, 08:21 AM by Helmut Winkler.)
Rene, sorry if I did not express myself clearly. What I meant is that B. 408 was not produced the way a printer produces a book arranging his pages in a certain order on a big paper sheet, which is printed, folded and cut or even like a medieval scribe (how you arrange the psalms when producing a psalter is a good example), but that single bifolioos were written, most likely in the order f. 1 r + v and 2 r + v and at some time ordered according to topics and bound together. This does not matter much in the herbal part, but gives a not coherent text in something like q. 13 or 20. That is why I think to present the ms. like an orderly produced book is misleading. This could have consequences, e.g. for the meaning of glyphs as well, but that is another matter