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Collaboration, quire by quire

Conventions used in the following collation charts:

Watermark conventions

Part 1: Codex Mendoza with front endpapers

Front endpapers & Quire I

It seems clearest to present the complex evidence for these leaves in reverse chronological order, from the present visible evidence back to hypothetical reconstructions of their original arrangement. Accordingly, the discussion starts with a list of the changes made during the repairs of 1986 and graphic representations of the visible evidence in two charts, chart 1 “after” and chart 2 “before” the changes of 1986. Chart 3 restates the evidence of chart 2 to provide a hypothetical reconstruction of how the leaves were then attached during the period between the seventeenth-century binding and the repairs of 1986. Chart 4 focuses only the front endleaves and a hypothetical reconstruction of their state before the seventeenth-century binding, as evidence of a previous binding. While charts 5-6 present alternative reconstructions of the original structure of Quire I (omitting the endleaves).