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Since each strip comprises a horizontal section across both sides of a bifolium, it contains music from the verso and recto of a leaf.
The latter will provide both a verso (including what survives) and a reconstructed recto containing the missing portions of this composition.
An indication is always given of whether a mark should be viewed from the recto or the verso of a leaf.
Each sheet contains two folios, recto and verso, but blank folios have been omitted from the totals.
The recto originally contained rulings for staves 1 and 3-7, out of the twelve possible on the leaf.
The verso side of the fragment shows more deterioration than the recto side.
There are fifty-five pages (including the separate title page occupying the opening recto side), all numbered by the library itself.
This recto evidently was left as a cover page, and its worn condition would indicate that it functioned in that capacity for some time.
This provides some explanation, at least, of why the directs appear, very unusually, between verso and recto and only in the section where the voice has entered.
The copy we have obtained does not have any page numbering; it contains two folios, that is four pages, and starts at the recto of a folio.
The recto side is written in an upright cursive hand and contains a memorandum concerning a lease.
On the recto it is written in cursive letters.
The second leaf shews the smooth breathing in its early square form: see line 15 of the recto of the leaf.
The recto side contains part of a 2nd- or 3rd-century account.
The recto consequently preserves the top left corner of a right-hand page; while the verso preserves the top right corner of a left-hand page.
