Printers at this time did not bind books, they merely supplied loose quires which the stationers or the owner could bind themselves.
At the end of the quire, on originally blank leaves, two scribes have added brief notes on indulgences and feasts, and an alphabetic divination (40).
The leaves may have formed part of the same quire, as is suggested by the text portions preserved on them.
There you would find tall piles of quires of future song anthologies, as well as an abundance of the latest song sheets.
The two bifolios are evidently the two innermost leaves of a quire.
Of present interest are quire 6 (that for the oblation) and quire 9 (the consecration).
The strips bear numbers relating to the foliation of the sixteenth-century quires from which they were extracted.
V) and continuing on two supplementary quires (fols. 184-94).
