Which things in the manuscript can be dated?

[-JKP-]

This is exactly what I've been working on for the last 12 years. At this point, I have searched more than 10,000 manuscripts, collected and organized more than 3,000 relevant samples for the column numbers, folio numbers, quire numbers, 116v text, etc.

A palaeographer can tell at a glance the approximate dates of each of these, but I now have data to back it up. A lot of it. This is important because an expert has already said that John Dee did the foliation. I wanted to find evidence to support or refute that claim (I don't care what the answer is, I only care about finding the answer).


Last night I put some effort into figuring out a way to present it (this has taken a long time, it's not easy data to organize for a lay audience) and finally came up with something I think might work. I don't know if it will be the final form, but it's something someone without palaeographic experience could look through and (hopefully) understand.