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• 1 2017-07-26T09:18:32-07:00 Codicology (cont'd) 19 Unusual features of the book's production plain 2017-07-28T08:15:37-07:00
   

  •Missing text:

  –At least one leaf, the last leaf of Quire 8, has been lost (resulting in the loss of the beginning of Liber urinarum).
  
  

  –Two leaves have been cut out after 90v (Quire 9), resulting in the loss of the end of Liber urinarum; the stubs of the two leaves are visible.
  
  

  •Oddity 1:

  Only three quires have signatures, all very different.
  -Quire 3 has signatures in blue ink:
  
  
  -Quire 4 has very large signatures in light brown ink that looks to be the same as the unusually large guide letters in this quire:
  
  
  
  -Discussion: the finishing work on this quire may have been done by a different scribe, possibly at a later date given the casual nature of the guide letters?
  
  -Quire 8 has large signatures in light brown ink, rather bizarre in form:
  
  
  
  
  
  
  -Discussion: the quire signatures may have been added later, this time by a hand that did not get involved in the main text.
  
  •Oddity 2:
  –Except for Liber de pulsu (which has a different layout), space has been left for rubrics throughout, but only in Quires 11-13 (not following divisions in text) are there guides for the rubricator written into the bottom margin.  These rubrication guides seem to be written less formally but in the same ink as the textual corrections in the margins throughout the book.
  
  
  
  -Discussion: the proof-reader may have checked the text out of order, beginning in Quire 11 and writing rubrication guides as he went, but his diligence gave out after Quire 13.

  –The first rubrication with a guide (111r) was filled in by a later hand.