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Terms naming the front and back of a leaf.
Also known as: Folio recto, Leaf sides
Recto is the front of a leaf and verso the back, so a leaf has two pages and one number in manuscript foliation. Bibliographic references use them because page numbers are a printing-era convenience that manuscripts do not have.
Name the two sides of a leaf, recto being the front and verso the back.
Contexts: History
Are used in manuscript description because manuscripts are foliated by leaf rather than paginated by page, so one number covers two sides.
Contexts: History
Fall on fixed sides in a Western printed book, the recto always being the right-hand page and therefore odd-numbered.
Contexts: History
The lowercase letters r or v printed after a folio number in a reference.