Core conundrums?

[ReneZ]

For almost everything, more or less close parallels can be found in other manuscripts, except for the writing.
One could tentatively order all the points listed above in terms of weirdness. (And come up with many different opinions).

For me, at the top is the writing.

At the other end are the foldouts. There's a little anecdote to that. During a workshop in 2014 the MS was analysed by five library curators, and they collectively considered that the presence of these foldouts was probably as unusual as the writing itself. Then one of them, Abigail Quandt of "Achimedes Palimpsest" fame, decided to get to the bottom of it. She consulted a colleague (You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.) who immediately came back with different examples, from the 12th and the 15th century. The two most interesting are:
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As far as the nymphs are concerned, for me, it isn't so much the nymphs themselves, but the 'stuff' they are standing in. Badly drawn naked women standing in green water can again be found elsewhere.
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For me the connected tubes and stuff in the biological section comes second, followed by the rosettes page (3rd).