What I understood from the discussion is that recto and verso can be ambiguous, as in scripts that read right to left the order is reversed and scrolls open up yet another can of worms. So some scholars opt for a and b instead. The use of a and b in Van Baak Grifiioen is clear when you open a page in the facsimile: left is a, right is b. David ******************************* David van Ooijen [1][email protected] [2]www.davidvanooijen.nl *******************************
On Sun, 22 Apr 2018 at 17:31, David van Ooijen <[3][email protected]> wrote: Apparently it's quite a discussion, mainly to do with mss that are written in scripts that don't read from left to right. I'm sure Arthur Ness has more to say on this. David On Sun, 22 Apr 2018 at 17:24, Rainer <[1][4][email protected]> wrote: On 22.04.2018 16:05, David van Ooijen wrote: > I have both the Van Eyck facsimile (Saul Groen) and Van Baak Griffioen > in front of me. Van Baak Griffioen does not use recto and verso, but a > and b, a being the left side of the open pages, b the right side. But > you figured that out already. No I haven't. This "system" is so idiotic - I can't believe it. > There are academic wars raging on the > pros and cons of either system. I have never before seen this a/b "system". Thanks a lot, Rainer PS Now I am considering to use octal page numbers in my Vallet edition - for odd page numbers. To get on or off this list see list information at [2][5]http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html -- ******************************* David van Ooijen [3][6][email protected] [4][7]www.davidvanooijen.nl ******************************* -- References 1. mailto:[8][email protected] 2. [9]http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html 3. mailto:[10][email protected] 4. [11]http://www.davidvanooijen.nl/ -- References 1. mailto:[email protected] 2. http://www.davidvanooijen.nl/ 3. mailto:[email protected] 4. mailto:[email protected] 5. http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html 6. mailto:[email protected] 7. http://www.davidvanooijen.nl/ 8. mailto:[email protected] 9. http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html 10. mailto:[email protected] 11. http://www.davidvanooijen.nl/
