Quire and bifolio patterns for strangely-aligned text

[pfeaster]

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.

I wonder too about f76/f83.  At the top right of f76v, there's an arch of spray proceeding from a figure's hands, to which a fragment of another stream (arch?) of spray seems to be joined on the right.  Part of this second stream appears to be hidden behind the intervening bifolios; but unless it's very short and stubby, it presumably extends out a bit into the marginal space between You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. and f83r.  Meanwhile, at the top left of f83r, there's a nymph with a funnel rising up behind her spouting more spray, but the left-hand portion of that image is obscured by the bend in the page, making it hard to tell quite what's happening there.  I don't suppose there's any easy way to tell whether these two figures are linked by a stream of spray drawn across the space between the two folios.

   

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.

There seem to be cases as well where the pages in a bifolio share unusually high amounts of overall vocabulary with each other, such as f1/f8.  In that case, there isn't so much overlap between You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. and f1r, but all the other page pairings in that bifolio show high correlations in vocabulary.  The snippet of spreadsheet below shows this calculated in one particular way, but I think I've seen others note a strong correlation between these pages too.