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Chart 16. Quire VIII, state after the repairs of 1986: visible evidence only.

Quire VIII, presumed earlier state, after the seventeenth-century rebinding

As in Quire VI, the seventeenth-century structure was artificial. Every leaf except folio 70 (and perhaps 72) was lined at the gutter with a stub of the familiar early repairing paper. The stub at folio 71v is visible both in the 1938 Cooper Clark facsimile and (though perhaps already slightly modified in shape) in the transparency made in 1985 for the 1992 facsimile. It was removed in 1986 and replaced with lighter tissue. The stub at folio 68r was released in 1986, but the rest are still stuck down. Like folios 55 + 53, folios 67 + 68 are artificially joined by a fold of the old repairing paper to form the central bifolium of the made-up quire with a thread at the gutter. However, it is now impossible to tell exactly how the stubs of folios 66v, 69r, and 71v were joined up to fit into the artificial structure. There is no sign of an old stub on either side of folio 70, but its recto is pasted at the gutter onto folio 69v.