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...
| Format: | eBook |
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| Language: | English |
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Berlin/Boston
De Gruyter
2023
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| Series: | Studies in Manuscript Cultures
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| Online Access: | Open Access: DOAB: description of the publication Open Access: DOAB, download the publication |
| Summary: | 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. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (389 p.) |
| ISBN: | 9783111290744 9783111292069 9783111292311 |
| Access: | Open Access |