The quire numbers

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...but I was hoping that we could use this thread to share similar quire numbering formats if we ever find any as it might help to identify some of the subsequent owners or users of the manuscript.

I have too much info to post here even though quire numbers are hard to find, very hard to find. They get trimmed off, or they get swallowed in the folds, or they were never added in the first place.

I have managed to locate only a few, and my entire collection of ordinals, after looking through more than 20,000 manuscripts is only about 70 samples (I say "about" because I have 75 but 5 are so incomplete I'm reluctant to include them in the count).

Here are some examples. These are not necessarily the best ones in the collection, just a sampling to provide the gist of what there is: