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At their gutters, folios i, stub (b), and folio ii (but not stub [a] or stub [c]) have holes which do not seem to match the seventeenth-century sewing and which presumably predate it. This evidence is confusing, but these holes were perhaps caused both by earlier damage and by an earlier sewing-structure. Similar, though less severe damage appears in the equivalent blank leaf which follows the end of the Codex Mendoza (folio 72), which may therefore be presumed to belong with this group of early endpapers.

Chart 4. The front endleaves before the seventeenth-century rebinding: hypothetical reconstruction

Original structure of Quire I: alternative reconstructions

Folio 9 can never have been conjoint either with folio 2 or with folio 10, since all three leaves carry watermarks and the directions of wire and felt sides do not fit. These types of evidence would allow folio 1 to have been conjoint either with folio 2 or with folio 10.

Charts 5-6. Original structure of Quire I: alternative reconstructions