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Original structure of Quire VIII: hypothetical reconstruction

The direction of mold and felt sides show that none of the five leaves from 66 to 70 could have been conjoint with each other and suggest that Quire VIII resembled earlier quires in its original structure (e.g. perhaps it was originally a ten-leaf quire with folios 66-70 as the first five leaves, all with their rectos as “mold” sides). The earlier system of quire signatures yields the “7”-shaped sign as usual at the top center of folio 66r (this time without the later quire signature, as explained above). The last original leaf, folio 71 (“mold” side at verso), reintroduces a pilgrim watermark (Pattern D), but in yet another subvariety. The only leaf with which folio 71 is at all likely to have been conjoint is folio 70, though there is some difference in texture (perhaps due to the later damage).

Chart 18. Original structure of Quire VIII: hypothetical reconstruction.

Part 2 (folios 73-85):

Monetary tables and lower endpapers