Tied and Bound: A Comparative View on Manuscript Binding

• Tác giả: Alessandro Bausi, Michael Friedrich
• Ngôn ngữ: eng
• ISBN-13: 978-3111290744
• ISBN-13: 978-3111292069
• ISBN-13: 978-3111292311
• Thông tin xuất bản: Berlin/Boston De Gruyter 2023
• Mô tả vật lý: 1 electronic resource (389 p.)
• Bộ sưu tập: Tài liệu truy cập mở
• ID: 375796
• Chủ đề: 1. archive codicology; 2. Book history; 3. preservation; 4. Literature & literary studies; 5. Palaeography (history of writing)

Tóm tắt

Every book form - from China to West Africa, from Europe to Mesopotamia - requires a way to secure cohesion of its constituent elements and keep them together. Whereas codex binding, as it still appears in modern printed books, is a familiar device, a comparative view on how things have been kept together in historic and current manuscript cultures provides an eye-opening survey of the variety of strategies applied to tie and bind manuscripts.