![]() ![]() It is unknown if the binding has ever had boards. ![]() It is likely however that the sections are side sewn together with vegetable fibre cord. The warped spine conceals the sewing and at the time of writing, the means of attachment is unknown. The gatherings are made up from an irregular number of pages folded together in single fold sections. MS 24, the above binding, is a very simple structure and consists of two gatherings, bound together without hard covers, with additional loose pages. MS 24, Devotional Prose and Verse in Irish, hand identified as Stephen Bryan (alternate spelling O’Brien). This makes the scholars binding interesting as a social artefact, the materials often having direct date and geographical connections through use of waste from advertisements, ephemera etc. Instead they show that the way they were put together were informed by a wealth of methods from other crafts, showing the skills their makers came from a variety of sources.Īlthough the writing media in most cases tends to be paper the covering materials in the bindings tend to be readily available stuff, such as corduroy, saddlery leather, seal skin, commercial leaflets and covers recycled from other books. This is not to say these bindings are badly made by unskilled hands. The structures were made in many different and inventive ways and they have very individualistic, improvised looks. The persons who made them would not have had access to a bookbinding training, techniques or tools. Whereas the methods might vary infinitely, from binder to binder and type of binding, there were more or less a standard and a set of accepted methods.īy contrast Scholars’s bindings were put together with the materials and methods available. In general books which comes through a print shop and a bookbindery are going to be made according to a similar method.
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