A man in blue with a red hat protests, "amis dargent ne me dema[n]dey poin" ("Friends, don't ask for any money from me"), but the innkeeper replies, "Qui e[n]vie y suy p[ar] coma[n]dema[n]t" ("Reluctantly, I am here under orders"). 6/9
I understand that historically, MSS have been dismembered in the past. But as you say, the one in question was dismembered by the dealer. It is everyone's responsibility to ask if the leaves were historically dismembered or from the dealer.
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1. I didn't know it had been recently dismembered at the time of purchase. 2. Neither, quite possibly, did the bookseller I bought it from. 3. And I STILL don't know for *certain* - it seems very likely, but it's not provable, as the previously intact codex is not documented.
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The practice is in any event dying out in terms of Western manuscripts and color-plate books, because the financial advantages of breaking up codices have largely disappeared. It's still very prevalent in Persian mss and it's almost universal in Mughal and other early Indian mss.
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