Time to retire Currier languages?

[LisaFaginDavis]

As Emma notes, the bifolia are definitely out of order. That's why the scribes are mixed in the herbal as well as ff. 93-96 (the bifolium 93/96 is Scribe 1, and 94/95 is Scribe 3). The book was disbound quite early in its history (before the folio numbers were added), perhaps because of the catastrophic spill in the upper margin, and the bifolia were rebound in the wrong order. It is not possible to reconstruct the original order of bifolia and quires because there isn't enough evidence to make a convincing case. There aren't any incontrovertible offsets that pre-date the misbinding, for example, and there are at least a dozen leaves missing. We may have to wait until it can be read to reconstruct the original order. Or we may have to find a way to reconstruct the original order so that it can be read!