In the upper and lower margins of fols. 134v-135, another piyyut “Supreme King, God who dwells on high” (מלך עליון אל דר במרום) [Davidson, III, מ, 1653], is copied in lighter brown ink by a later scribe (Hand 1), while the last part of this piyyut is written in the main text of fol. 135. We can assume that the missing text was originally written in the central bifolium of the quire and then recopied on fols. 134v-135 by Hand 1. Indeed this quire now includes only ten leaves instead of the 12-leafs quire which is the common structure of the quires in this manuscript. Since the flourishes in the upper margin cover parts of a few letters of the additional text, we can deduce that this addition was copied before the manuscript was decorated. Also the unusual lack of flourish stems in the lower margin supports this assumption that the decoration was done after the text was copied. The same hand also added the text in the margins of fols. 78v-79. see also: Quires, Remarks



