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Chart 10. Quire V

Note on Quire V: The sequence of “mold” / “felt” sides of the paper is broken by the bifolium 43/48, where the two leaves are folded in reverse of the normal folding. However, since there is no sign of textual disturbance between folios 42v and 43r, 43v and 44r, 47v and 48r, and 48v and 49r, this reversal presumably happened accidentally when the quire of blank paper was formed before use.

Quire VI

Apart from the edge repairs, this quire was left undisturbed during the repairs of 1986. Every leaf is lined at the gutter with a stub of paper similar to that used for the stubs (a), (c), and (d) in the front endleaves and Quire I, dating perhaps from the time of the seventeenth-century rebinding. The stubs here are all still firmly pasted down, and it is impossible to tell how those attached to folios 51, 52, and 54 connect and fit into the sewing structure.

Folio 55 has long been misplaced between folios 52 and 53 (Cooper Clark notes the disturbance, vol. I p. 85 n. 1, but artificially restores folio 55 to its correct position in his facsimile of 1938, vol. III; the same policy was followed in the 1992 facsimile). Folios 55 and 53 are artificially joined by a fold of what is thought to be the seventeenth-century repairing paper to form the central bifolium of the quire made up with a thread at the gutter.