Tied and Bound: A Comparative View on Manuscript Binding

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 to...

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التنسيق: Online
اللغة:الإنجليزية
منشور في: De Gruyter 2023
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الوصول للمادة أونلاين:ONIX_20231020_9783111292069_24
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الملخص: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.