The quire numbers

[arca_libraria]

Thank you both so much!

Marco I had never seen that series of blog posts by Thomas Sauvaget, I will save them for tonight’s  reading. Those St Gallen quire numbers have the most similarity with the VMS quire numbers that I think I have ever seen - I don’t even mean the actual glyphs, just the principle of construction for how to represent the ordinal forms of the numbers.

JKP - thank you! You are always so generous with your database samples. I knew there had to be some similar examples out there, even though as you say, quire numbers get damaged and cut off all the time. 

I know that identifying later owners is probably too ambitious, but there are often house/library styles for cataloguing so I think any truly similar examples should be investigated just in case we can localise the manuscript or some of the people who had access to it in its later years.