[Blog Post] Analysis of cover attachment and VMS binding.

[LisaFaginDavis]

Wow, Wladimir, this is wonderful! You've actually given me hope that the original sequence of bifolia in the herbal section CAN be reconstructed, not by looking at the offsets but by looking "behind the scenes" at the spine and sewing holes. I was particularly intrigued by this observation (translation by Google): "I get the impression that bifolios 50-55 and 51-54 were previously central biolios in other notebooks. There was dust from ancient stitching on them. They are now deliberately placed in one notebook." 

Since bifolium 50-55 is Scribe 2/Herbal B and bifolium 51-54 is Scribe 1/Herbal A, this observation supports the idea that the quires were originally organized by scribe, which would be in keeping with the general practice of medieval book production.