Time to retire Currier languages?

[bi3mw]

The folios of the manuscript are known to have been shuffled out of their original order.

While it is true that some folios may not be sorted correctly, I would not go so far as to assume that the VMS was bound completely "jumbled".

This may be explained away by the tedious work being distributed across a number of scribes working in parallel.

Even with parallel editing, I would assume that the writers edited individual blocks, otherwise it would hardly have been possible to work in an orderly manner. In addition, the tasks for the individual writers would then have been distributed more evenly.