Quire and bifolio patterns for strangely-aligned text

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But the alternative idea that each bifolio was created separately, and that the results were subsequently assembled into quires, seems interesting, and I was curious to see if there were any other patterns (besides scribal attribution) that might point in this direction, or might shed further light on what was going on production-wise ("bifolio as a functional unit"?).

There are indeed some hints pointing in the direction that the bifolios were created separately. There are for instance the illustrations in the balneological section. In my eyes the illustrations for the f75/f84 as well as for the f78/f81 bifolio look similar and are probably related.

Another point is the distribution of EVA-m (see You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.) in Currier A. On some bifolios there is not a single instance of EVA-m. See for instance the f2/f7 and the f20/f21 bifolios. But for Currier A there are bifolios like f3/f5 and f17/f24 where EVA-m is frequently used. Moreover on f3/f5 as well as on f17/f24 EVA-m is used all over the page. And there are also bifolios where EVA-m is rarely used like on the f10/f15 as well as on the f11/f14 bifolio.