Matching Plant Images Internally

[ReneZ]

I've been thinking of a way to do this digitally, but it's really tricky since bifolios can also be flipped, kind of doubling the number of possible combinations. The best way I can think of is to print bifolios physically on paper.

The MS has 52 sheets or bifolios. I am using a numbering which is reflected in the IVTFF transliteration files. The page variable $Q gives one letter for each quire (A-T where P and R are missing) and the variable $B numbers the sheets (1...6) outward to inward for each quire. So, A1 is the outermost sheet of quire 1.

The three sheets with pharmaceutical drawings are Q2, S1 and S2.

One could add the sheet code as a column for each plant drawing.
Excel allows one to sort the data by any column (but be careful when doing it - keep a safety copy).
This will eventually allow all sorts of pattern matching.

Note that, by looking at the progression of container 'complexity', one can (very tentatively) conclude that the planned order of the three pharma sheets may have been:

S2, followed by S1, followed by Q2. They would not have been nested as they are now.
Putting them in this order, with the binding in the same place as it is now, creates a consistent sequence of containers.