(22-04-2026, 03:51 PM)LisaFaginDavis wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.The other folds are either original or were imposed later. Note that these allignment images were taken using my copy of the Siloe facsimile of the manuscript and the letter. The next time I'm at the Beinecke I'll image the actual objects together and will also ask if they'll let me image the inside of the front cover using UV light to see if there are any offsets (since there's no text there to be put at risk, I suspect it won't be a problem). That's a long shot, but definitely worth investigating.
There are unanswered questions, of course, such as how to explain the wax and its offsets.
I'm not sure this current thread is the proper place to discuss this topic.
In any case, as you know, I have submitted a detailed proposal to Beinecke to inspect both artifacts in order to answer this and several other questions around what I outlined in the paper. The presence of paste or glue using UV light is among the proposed tests, but there are several others proposed that are worth doing as well.
It seems, from your post, that my description of the folding sequence that I outlined in the paper was not conveyed very well. Unfortunately, due to length limitations, I had to remove figures which showed the use of folds and wax much better than the word descriptions I was able to retain. I expect, should the paper be accepted for the conference, I can show that in the video along with the reenactment I have using the facsimile.