(10-12-2025, 10:22 PM)Jorge_Stolfi wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.I am guessing that, until 100 years ago and even after, any such collection that ended up in a library would have been bound together by the librarian, for practical handling and control reasons.
But if it wasn't designed to be bound there would likely be texts, titles, labels that would appear right on the center line between two folios.
Voynich Manuscript in particular has a lot of drawings and labels, and, as I mentioned before, both Rosettes and You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. show writing across the fold, so writing across the fold wasn't a taboo for the designer or the scribe. Which means to me with very high certainly that whoever put the manuscript to vellum deliberately placed all the text clear of the centerline, most likely to allow for binding.