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Subsequently, if by Purchas’s time folios 55 and 53 were already artificially joined into a bifolium at the center of a quire, their further reversal would only have been a small step, pushing folio 55 one further step back to its present position, as in chart 11.

Original structure of Quire VI: hypothetical reconstruction

Chart 13. Quire VII

The change from Section 2 to Section 3 of the Codex Mendoza’s text coincides with the change from Quire VI to Quire VII (apparently deliberately created by the original elimination of the last five leaves of VI after folio 55) and with a change from “Pilgrim” to “Cross” paper. The structure of Quire VII could be accepted as quite regular were it not for traces of evidence between folios 64-5: escaped thread at the top and fragments of stub lower down the gutter. The appearance of one (though not both) of the standard quire signatures on folio 66 implies that folio 65 still belongs to Quire VII. At least two reconstructions are possible, which are detailed in the following sections.