Use this palaeographic utility to apply a stated dating, script, abbreviation, codicological, metrological, layout, or condition rule consistently while preparing manuscripts for scholarly review.

First page side

Skin side facing the recto (first page).

Generate the standard catalogue hair/flesh note for a leaf from which skin side faces the first page, deriving the opposite side for the verso with exact string construction. The tool evaluates the supplied inputs together and returns the named outputs below; it does not infer omitted operating conditions or change the units shown.^[1]

Recto side

Skin side of the recto.

Verso side

Skin side of the verso.

Catalogue note

Ready-to-paste catalogue note.

• Script and manuscript evidence varies by language, region, institution, period, scribe, material, restoration, and cataloguing convention. A heuristic flag or score is not an authoritative date, hand attribution, reading, provenance, or conservation diagnosis.
• Use finite inputs in the displayed units and preserve more precision than the final presentation requires. Independently verify safety-critical, financial, compliance, or production decisions.

Retain page images, scale, foliation, material, provenance, diplomatic transcription, uncertainty, and comparison exemplars; confirm conclusions with codicological context and specialist judgment.

• Grain Hair/Folio Mapper

  Map which folios of a quire show hair or flesh on their rectos under your declared nesting model (uniform rectos of one chosen skin, or alternating so each opening pairs identical skins), as exact leaf lists.

• Carbon / Iron-Gall Note Generator

  Generate a condition-note verdict for carbon versus iron-gall ink under the stated counting rule: three documented carbon traits (opaque black core, black in reflectography, water-smudge resistant) are counted against three documented iron-gall traits (brown edge tinge, halo bleeding, corrosion holes), and the majority side wins while a tie yields 'mixed indications'.

• Quire Signature Position Finder

  Locate a leaf inside its quire for signature placement: exact arithmetic gives the conjugate leaf, first or second half of the quire, which bifolium counting from the outermost sheet, and the leaf's running number across the manuscript.