A simple python script for visualizing manuscript collation.
Quires are modelled as a list of lists with each quire being a list: [{number of leaves in original quires structure}, [{a list of missing leaves numbered by their original position}], [{a list of added leaves numbered by their current position in the quire}]]
For example: 1(12)(-1, 7) would be: [12, [1, 7], []] 25(4)(+5) would be: [4, [], 5]
Texts in the manuscript are modelled as a list of lists with each text being a list: [{starting folio}, {text title}] For example, the texts described http://www.digital-scriptorium.org/huntington/EL9H9.html could be modelled: [[1, 'Giles of Rome, De regimine principum'], [97, 'Subject index to art. 1'], [105, 'Nicholas Trivet, Commentary on Boethius's De consolatione philosophiae'], [192, 'Treatise on metrics']]
The modelling is currently done in the python script. Output is two files: '{manuscript_name}.svg' containing an SVG rendering of the collation and '{manuscript_name}.html' providing an HTML wrapper for the SVG to allow scrolling.
The script is under development and has been tested on a limited range of samples.