19-07-2018, 09:04 AM
This is a non-trivial issue.
For the identification of folio numbers, there is not a problem as it follows the old foliation (which may not be contemporary in the strict sense).
For the identification of recto and verso there is also not a problem, since this follows standard conventions.
(Both points taking into account that this is a western book. For Arabic or Hebrew books , and probably some others, this would be different).
The special case for the Voynich MS is the numbering of the foldout 'parts'.
This was consolidated by Jim Reeds in 1995 or so.
D'Imperio before him used the same method but did not describe all cases.
Anne Nill seems to be the one who introduced this, but also her notes on this are not complete.
The You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. has been summarised visually on You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. .
Mapping the illustration to the folio and page numbers is done throughout the section that Wladimir already linked to.
Unfortunately, when the Beinecke first produced the web site with the new scans, they mislabeled the illustrations rather badly. (This was not done by a curator or conservator, but by public services).
This has been fixed, but one can still see the old problem on a web site with copies of the images:
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It doesn't take a long investigation to see that this cannot be correct.
Therefore, it is in principle possible that there are still some leftovers of this earlier mistake in parts of the Beinecke web resources, especially ones that weren't published officially.
For the identification of folio numbers, there is not a problem as it follows the old foliation (which may not be contemporary in the strict sense).
For the identification of recto and verso there is also not a problem, since this follows standard conventions.
(Both points taking into account that this is a western book. For Arabic or Hebrew books , and probably some others, this would be different).
The special case for the Voynich MS is the numbering of the foldout 'parts'.
This was consolidated by Jim Reeds in 1995 or so.
D'Imperio before him used the same method but did not describe all cases.
Anne Nill seems to be the one who introduced this, but also her notes on this are not complete.
The You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. has been summarised visually on You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. .
Mapping the illustration to the folio and page numbers is done throughout the section that Wladimir already linked to.
Unfortunately, when the Beinecke first produced the web site with the new scans, they mislabeled the illustrations rather badly. (This was not done by a curator or conservator, but by public services).
This has been fixed, but one can still see the old problem on a web site with copies of the images:
You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.
It doesn't take a long investigation to see that this cannot be correct.
Therefore, it is in principle possible that there are still some leftovers of this earlier mistake in parts of the Beinecke web resources, especially ones that weren't published officially.