01-06-2021, 01:13 PM
Thank you both so much!
Marco I had never seen that series of blog posts by Thomas Sauvaget, I will save them for tonight’s reading. Those St Gallen quire numbers have the most similarity with the VMS quire numbers that I think I have ever seen - I don’t even mean the actual glyphs, just the principle of construction for how to represent the ordinal forms of the numbers.
JKP - thank you! You are always so generous with your database samples. I knew there had to be some similar examples out there, even though as you say, quire numbers get damaged and cut off all the time.
I know that identifying later owners is probably too ambitious, but there are often house/library styles for cataloguing so I think any truly similar examples should be investigated just in case we can localise the manuscript or some of the people who had access to it in its later years.
Marco I had never seen that series of blog posts by Thomas Sauvaget, I will save them for tonight’s reading. Those St Gallen quire numbers have the most similarity with the VMS quire numbers that I think I have ever seen - I don’t even mean the actual glyphs, just the principle of construction for how to represent the ordinal forms of the numbers.
JKP - thank you! You are always so generous with your database samples. I knew there had to be some similar examples out there, even though as you say, quire numbers get damaged and cut off all the time.
I know that identifying later owners is probably too ambitious, but there are often house/library styles for cataloguing so I think any truly similar examples should be investigated just in case we can localise the manuscript or some of the people who had access to it in its later years.
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