I've done lots of reading on the Rosicrucians, and the Masons, and the Theosophists, and Edgar Cayce, and Nostradamus, and Edward Kelley, and anyone who is remotely weird, different, unusually intelligent, or interesting in other ways.
I don't think anyone was hiding anything in the quire numbers. I think that's your imagination talking. I think it's just a messy 9, probably added by the bookbinder's assistant or the person who acquired the VMS and wanted to get it bound. It is overall consistent with the other quire numbers and it doesn't really look like the tail-n on 116v. The stroke order is different.
I don't think anyone was hiding anything in the quire numbers. I think that's your imagination talking. I think it's just a messy 9, probably added by the bookbinder's assistant or the person who acquired the VMS and wanted to get it bound. It is overall consistent with the other quire numbers and it doesn't really look like the tail-n on 116v. The stroke order is different.
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