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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
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).
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