11-12-2025, 09:50 PM
(11-12-2025, 02:25 PM)LisaFaginDavis wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.That leaves the Rose, bound as is, and quires 15, 17, and 19 - the herbal bifolia in this section are almost certainly out of place and, as Stolfi noted, the pharma bifolia are likely singulions as well.
The Scribe 1 herbal bifolia in quire 15, f93/f96 bifolio in quire 17, and pharma bifolia in quires 15 and 19 are in a "dialect" of the Currier A language distinct from the Currier A dialect(s) of the Scribe 1 bifolia in the earlier herbal quires (with possibly a small number of exceptions). That's how they cluster in bigram frequency space in the tests I've run; looking at Rene's site (You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view., etc) this corresponds to his RZ language Ae (You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.)). In that sense they do belong together, and the fact that they ended up in physical proximity in the binding as well as statistical proximity in "dialect" may say something about the route they took from the original scribes to the binding.
I'm curious what your thinking about the f57/f66 bifolio is:
* It seems odd that it wasn't folded the other way for the binding, swapping You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. and You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. and making the current You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. face the start of the quire 9 circular diagrams.
* The two sides sort of fit in with the concept that "each bifolium was written as an independent unit, meant to be read as four pages in a row" in the sense that one side (f57v/f66r) has the concentric circle diagram on the left half and an all-text page on the right half, while the other side (f57r/f66v) has a pair of large plant drawing herbal pages. I'm struggling to picture the order in which the pages were written. Did Scribe 1 do the left side of one side of a blank bifolio with a non-herbal circular diagram, then Scribe 5 did the text-only right side and decided to put a pair of herbal pages on the otherwise blank back? Whatever the order, it seems unlikely You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. was written before You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. (doing the right half of that side before the left half).
