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Having found Derome's ticket we are obliged to have a brief look at the work of Pascal Ract-Madoux, entitled; Essai de classement chronologique des etiquettes de Derome le Jeune. in the Bulletin du bibliophile, 1989 page 383 to 391. What we see is that part of this Codex example has been cut off. This is consistent with another example of the D tickets where you can see that part has been added to hide the lower part. On looking closer at these D tickets and the A tickets you discover that the D tickets are in fact A tickets with the bottom part removed. This would seem an easy answer to these mysterious altered tickets however a close examination of the Codex example reveals that it is not from any of the A examples shown by Pascal, the caligraphy of dessus is not the same on either the Codex example or the Liber conformitatum example. We do see however that the Liber example shows a minuscule remaining part of the small t that is at the end of this line on the A tickets, thus the theory that the D tickets are only reused A tickets is probably correct but may be from a model of the A type that Pascal never found, more troubling is the fact that the Codex and Liber examples differ from each other, particularly in the placement of the dot under St (Jacques). All of this may provide important chronological clues as to when this binding was actually made and this brings us back to the 1782 page shown the previous page. Why? because this Codex example has an inner dentelle roulette identical to the roulette on the 1782 binding (see Comparative Diagram 7).
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