(09-10-2025, 08:51 PM)LisaFaginDavis wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.Ok, people, here's my Univ. of Toronto Medieval Studies lecture! I've got BIG NEWS to report about the potential original structure of the manuscript. Check it out! (new material starts around minute 14) You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.
This was brilliant and very interesting. I still have not understood the maths behind it but can't wait for the paper to be published. It really does feel that between this and the Naibbe cipher that we are finally making some sort of progress. If these were really individual, unbound quadrifolios, I wonder then why the author(s) (which might not be the scribes) felt the need to include a "title" page like f1r.
I feel that the fact it exists supports the idea that there is some sort of meaning, a quack would have no need for a random page of unreadable text to preface the herbal section, he could just show the individual plants around and it would give him exactly the same result.
I also wonder how closely related it to You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. and the other 2 of the bifolio. It would be interesting to see if there's some relation or none at all, I would be interested in reading your thoughts on it
Edit: what about quire marks? When do you think were those added?