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The folio numbers on the versos also occur in two openings in the middle of the tribute section, with “fo. 43.” (at folio 42v) and “fo. 44.” (43v): unusually with the word “f(oli)o” stated, but bracketed as usual. Finally, the last few openings of the section are also marked with “51” (on folio 50v), “52” (51v), “53” (52v), “54” (53v) and “55” (54v). These are entered correctly and without alteration. They may have been added there, by the seventeenth-century foliator in an attempt to arrange the disordered leaves (and corrections to the main folio numbers) in this area of the manuscript: see further at Quire VI.

Folios i-ii and 71-85 were foliated in pencil in Bodleian style, probably in the hand of Falconer Madan (late nineteenth/early twentieth centuries). Folios I and II were foliated by Bruce Barker-Benfield in 1986.

Item number (?)

Folio 1r also contains a “1.”, boldly written in ink at the lower edge of folio 1r, towards the right. This could be interpreted not as a quire signature, but as an item number of the seventeenth century or later. This number was probably not added prior to the time of the present binding, since it more or less matches in position with a “II” written at the lower edge of the first page of Part 2 on folio 73r. However, the latter’s numerals are smaller and the position not so far to the right of center, so this interpretation is not certain.