28-07-2021, 03:10 PM
(27-07-2021, 11:15 PM)nickpelling wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.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.So would you say that the entire VMS is bound in a completely random way, or is it just individual folios that are sorted incorrectly? The extent of the mis-sorting is an important point for me, but I can't infer anything from your statement.
And that's before we even get to all the (very strong, very persuasive) evidence about the herbal pages and Q13.

