{"id":13719,"date":"2020-06-30T01:13:25","date_gmt":"2020-06-30T01:13:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/?p=13719"},"modified":"2022-01-24T00:29:16","modified_gmt":"2022-01-24T00:29:16","slug":"vellum-binding-fragments-in-a-parisian-printed-book-of-1598","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/vellum-binding-fragments-in-a-parisian-printed-book-of-1598\/","title":{"rendered":"Vellum Binding Fragments in a Parisian Printed Book of 1598"},"content":{"rendered":"

Pieces of an Early 16th-Century French Legal Document
\nReused as Vellum Supports or Guards
\nin the Quarto Binding of
\nHenry de Suberville’s L’Henry-Metre<\/em>
\nPrinted in Paris in 1598<\/h2>\n

Manuscript Binding Fragments Remaining In Situ<\/em><\/h2>\n

[Posted on 30 June 2020, with updates<\/em>]<\/p>\n

\"Smeltzer

Smeltzer Collection, Henry de Suberville, ‘L’Henry-metre’ (1598), Title Page.<\/p><\/div>\n

\"Smeltzer

Smeltzer Collection, Henri de Suberville (1598), Spine View as Preserved.<\/p><\/div>\n

With thanks to the owner, our Associate, Ronald K. Smeltzer<\/a>, we observe some recycled vellum stiffeners which still stand in situ<\/em> in a scientific book by the author and inventor Henry de Suberville, printed in Paris in 1598 by Adrien Perier.\u00a0 All the photographs here are Ronald’s, reproduced with permission.\u00a0 The volume has lost the boards and any covering of its former cover, but it retains elements of the binding, including the stitching and some stiffeners repurposed from earlier hand-written material. Our purpose here is to examine and illustrate the reused binding fragments in their settings.<\/p>\n

Inspired by The Caxton Club\/Bibliographical Society of America Symposium on the Book held in April 2015 on \u201cPreserving the Evidence: The Ethics of Book and Paper Conservation\u201d, Ronald has published a concise report (freely downloadable) about the volume and his approach to conserving and conserving it.<\/p>\n