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In the seventeenth-century ink foliation on the rectos of folios 55, 53, and 54, each second digit has been altered. When viewed under the video spectral comparator, it is clear that the present “53” has been altered from “54,” but the first readings of the other two numbers are not clear. As noted above, under “Foliation,” the versos in this area of the manuscript (as sometimes elsewhere) are numbered with the folio number of the facing page, presumably to show that the opening was to be read as a unit with text-facing pictures. The verso foliations here are all entered correctly for the textual content, with “53” (on 52v), nothing (55v), “54” (53v) and “55” (54v). All the folio numbers, both recto (original and corrections) and verso, seem to be by the same seventeenth-century hand. The foliation evidence is difficult to evaluate, but the alterations at least confirm some disturbance in the order already present at the time of the seventeenth-century foliation.

Chart 11. Quire VI, visible evidence