Anomalous Types
It is remarkable that three compositors often distributing type from
the same pages and columns at the same time failed to produce in quire H
even one anomalous appearance of a distinctive type. Instead it now
becomes possible to explain two anomalous appearances of distinctive types
recorded by Hinman. Upon discovering two distinctive types from
upper H3a in Compositor B's H6 (p 27 and N22 in Table I,
l.
10), Hinman concluded that "B's
labours for H6 can hardly have been simultaneous with D's for
H5
v
and we cannot well suppose that Compositor D began his distributing of H3
at some point near the middle of H3a, leaving the first twenty-five lines or
so standing for B to distribute later. How we can best account for the
presence of types p27 and N22 in H6 is hard to say, but they evidently got
into B's case in some irregular manner" (II, 392). With the discovery that
quire H was set by three compositors working from three cases, often
simultaneously on different formes, the appearance of these types need no
longer be regarded as anomalous. Compositor B's "labours for H6"
probably were simultaneous with D's for H5
v, just as,
somewhat
earlier, Compositor B's work on H4
v probably coincided
with the work
of Compositors C and D on H4.