28-07-2021, 11:28 AM
(27-07-2021, 11:15 PM)nickpelling wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.(27-07-2021, 05:16 PM)Helmut Winkler wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.The folios of the manuscript are known to have been shuffled out of their original order.
That is simply not true, it is one of thr urban legends of Beineke 48 research. There is no reason to believe that the order of the original author was changed because there never was an order planned beforehand
The quire numbers are inconsistent with the foliation, and some of the wide bifolios have been rebound along different folds from what was clearly intended. Anyone claiming that what we are looking at now was the original intended state is codicologically naive and/or not looking very hard.
And that's before we even get to all the (very strong, very persuasive) evidence about the herbal pages and Q13.
Nick, I suppose it's my bad English or maybe you didn't read what I wrote or you didn't understand, I said that there was no original plan or order, the ms. is a sequence of more or less independent notes, any attempt to restore an original state leads to nowhere