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However, it should be noted that even this series of charts offers probably only an over-simplified account of the complex history of these leaves over four and a half centuries. The intense interest which they have always attracted must have made them ever vulnerable to overhandling and, hence, to frequent running repairs over the years.

Front endpapers and Quire I:

Changes made in 1986

1.Folio i was released from the shoulder of the front pastedown to which it had been pasted.

2.Because of the build-up of paper and paste,1 the larger stubs (see charts below) were felt to be forming ridges and consequent weakening of the leaves against which they were pasted. They were released as follows:

–Stub (a) verso was released from stub (b) recto.

–Stub (b) verso was released from folio ii recto (stub [b] remains thickened with paste deposits on either side).

–Stub (c) verso was released from folio 1 recto.

–Stub (d) verso was released from folio 9 recto.

–Four strips of old repair paper at top and bottom of folios 1v and 2r (matching and presumably once conjoint to provide additional support for these leaves) were removed and discarded (these strips are visible in the Cooper Clark facsimile of 1938 and in the 1985 transparencies which were used for the facsimile of 1992).