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Anomalous Types

Four anomalous appearances of distinctive types must be recorded. Distinctive type y28 is common to I5va5 (set by Cx) and H3b56 (distributed by Ds during composition of quire H); distinctive type h24 is common to I4va21 (set by Cx) and H3a62 (distributed by Ds again during work on quire H). In the wrought-off material, neither type occupied a peripheral position, nor was either one adjacent to a centre rule. Thus neither one was likely vulnerable to a stripping accident.[10] Even so, these two anomalous appearances can scarcely outweigh the seventeen regular appearances of distinctive types already noted in the Ds and Cx pages of quire I. Were the three-case hypothesis for quires G-I seriously in error, we might expect to find a much lower proportion of type recurrences explained by it.

A third apparently anomalous appearance of a distinctive type in fact provides further evidence for the three-case hypothesis. The Ds page I3v contains distinctive type D23, last seen in column G3vb, a column which supplied types to the Cx page H1 and the By page G1v (see Table II, l. 1 and Table I, l. 26). However, the distinctive type in Cx's page H1 is from

G3vb6 in the upper part of the column, the distinctive types in By's page G1v are from G3vb23-39 in the middle part of the column, and the distinctive type in Ds's page I3v is from G3vb52 in the lower part of the column. Therefore three compositors in all likelihood shared the distribution of column G3vb, as they shared distribution of other columns of quires F, G, and H.

The fourth anomalous appearance was noted by Hinman: "The type represented in line 19 of the graph is G34. It is common to H5a22 (distributed into case y) and I5vb5 (set by Ax [that is, Cx]). It is immediately adjacent to the left-hand rule in page H5, and hence in a peripheral position there" (II, 397).