#Pigskin binding

[upennmanuscripts]

Ms. Codex 1057 is a psalter for secular, not monastic, use, written in Trento, Italy, around 1350. Decoration includes illumination, penwork initials and animals in some margins. It's bound in late 16th c. blind-stamped pigskin with brass clasps.

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Annotated Cicero

411G Cicero 106 B.C.-44 B.C Epistolarum familiarium…libri XVI, ex Christophori Lo[n]golij eloquentiss. oratoris castigationibus recogniti, quàm antè hac multò etia[m] à mendis curiosiùs adserti; elenchum eorum, quae adiecimus, versa habet pagina Coloniae : Apud Viduam Marini Gymnici, 1551                                     Price $3,300 Edited by Christophorus Longolius (Christophe de…

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DIE VIER VND ZWENZIG ALTEN. by Otto von Passau (14th century) source [Library of Congress]

Blind-tooled pigskin binding (Strausberg, 1500) credited to Johann Schott.

‘Blind tooling is the most common decorative technique found on bindings up until the sixteenth century. A dark impression is made by impressing dampened leather with a heated brass finishing tool. The twelfth century saw an outpouring of creative blind tooling on leather book covers, and a number of these Romanesque bindings survive today, mostly in European libraries. This period of stamping with small decorative tools was short-lived, however, and most late medieval bindings were probably very plain, with any design limited to a few blind lines. In the fifteenth century, with the increase in book production brought by the printing press, bookbinding became a viable commercial and secular enterprise. Binders acquired assortments of decorative stamps, which came to distinguish their work from that of other shops. These stamps, made of brass and mounted into wooden handles, produced a wonderful variety of shapes and images: birds and animals, flowers and intertwining leaves, human figures and abstract graphic forms. We see them used in combination with blind lines in various layouts, often associated with differing regional styles.’

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Sewing on different sorts of leather strips

One of the traditional materials that was sewn on is leather and parchment. While parchment is often used like bands are nowadays, leather offers different options due to it’s flexibility. Direction wise any strip will do, but it helps the stability and durability to cut the strips with the less stretchy direction running parallel to the long side of the band. Now the leather can be used as a flat band, or curled up to a cord. Top to bottom we have

- a calfskin strip with a slit from a bit longer than the book block is wide and the thread passing through the slit in the leather, wrapping around it with the loop passing under the thread and back through the slit into the signature. 

- the same procedure but this time on pigskin, you can see the three ‘holes’ left in the skin by the thick bristles that grow in a characteristic triangle pattern that reaches all through the pig skin.

- goatskin. the strap is slit and then twisted by pushing on end of the strap through the slit a few times until the sides curl before being sewn just like it were two cords. Any sewing technique for two cords works here and it doesn’t matter whether the  smooth or the rough side is on the outside

- cowhide, a strip of leather without further preparation rolled up a bit when firming the first loop and pulled in shape by tightening the loop. The sewing can be any as mentioned for the single cord binding. Shown here is the thread wrapped as high as the signature.

- goatskin, in contrast to any other binding this one has the bands  half sunken into the signatures. The signatures are clamped and rasped in a semi circle. The strip of leather then gets moistened, rolled up and simply sewn over.  

When opening the middle of a signature the band is visible as a small dot of colour with this style.

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#WordyWednesday

Leather: A tanned animal skin and a popular binding material. The most common animal skins used for bookbinding leather are cow, goat, sheep, and pig. Sometimes skins would be prepared with alum salts, in which case they are said to be “tawed” rather than “tanned”, resulting in a tougher but less flexible material; tawed pigskin was popular among medieval German binders. Different kinds of leather often have fancy names based on their color or historical origins. If the skin is not tanned or tawed, but is instead stretched and scraped thin, then you are dealing with parchment.

(via Jobbing — Lithography · Rare Books: A Glossary · Special Collections and Archives)

[talesofpassingtime]

The Heidelberg bag quakes under the torrent of abuse. “Sister-sleeping pigskin bag from Abroad full of foreigners’ tricks. Big-shot bag. Now if a man breaks an arm that bag will not let the bone-setter bind it in leaves. Now a man must let his wife lie beside that bag and watch knives come and cut her open. A fine business, what these foreigners put in our young men’s heads. I swear: it is a too-bad thing. That bag should fry in Hell with the testicles of the ungodly.”

— Salman Rushdie, Midnight’s Children

[leticiagalicia]

The Gutenberg Bible is published

It is 1454 in the Rhineland town of Mainz and three friends have come together to collaborate in publishing a document. These three friends are Johannes Gutenberg, an inventor, Peter Schoffer, a printer, and Johann Furst, a financier. Until now, there have been vernacular versions of the Bible that were attempted by proto-protestant Wycliffe and others, but these copies are very expensive and were limited to the elite or are only given for monastic and scholarly usage. Gutenberg’s production is considered complex, will require an extraordinary amount of careful labor, and will change culture for the rest of history. This labor includes setting up 42 lines of text per page and a font of 300 distinctive pages. This Bible will run about 1,300 pages and will weigh around 66 lbs or 30 Kilos and the text will be set to have a Latin translation known as Vulgate. The Bible is also set to be printed in double columns and the capital letters and headings are ornamented by hand in color.  Despite the amount of pages and the weight of this book, it will have a binding that has metal features such as claps and embossed corners to ensure protection Also, the binding seems to be in a white pigskin texture. The printing of this Bible is considered the Gutenberg Revolution. Printing will no longer rely on woodblock technology.  This use of moveable metal will allow a more flexible, efficient, and most of all cheaper way of printing. Besides that, this printing revolution will reduce the number of mistakes since it will have accurate and reliable reproduction among volumes. Culturally speaking, this new technology will bring more readers and indirectly more debate about religious conflicts or interpretations since a greater amount of people will have access to what is considered one of the most important books at this time. This event will culturally and technologically revolutionize our lives moving forward since the industry will model this occasion and recreate other documents and since more people will have access to different information sources than in the past.

[aureostuff]

Drunk HCs

Lucifer

Will be more clingy, would be vulnerable and will cry. All pride is just forgotten.

If you look away for even a millisecond, he will throw a hissy fit.(inspired from @beelzebubisbestwaifu‘s post.)

“MC! Don’t look away from me, got it?!”

Although that aside, he is very adorable. 

If he ends up passing out he’ll always ends up passing out on your shoulder. He’ll be pretty heavy, not gonna lie. But he’s also very fucking adorable. 

At the end of the day, you’ll end up either seeing Lucifer in a new light or just end up looking at Lucifer most of the time.

Mammon

(Sober) Lucifer is nothing compared to drunk Mammon.

Would be less obvious about his attraction to MC, but would be very scary towards his other brothers when they try to talk to his human.

“Hey MC, wanna watch this new- Never mind....”

If you thought that he was possessive before, the possessiveness levels have just reached new heights.

His chin will be resting on your head as his arms are wrapped around you tightly. His head might land in the crook of your neck.

You’ll either be shaken up from his menacing aura, or be a blushing mess.

Leviathan

Taiga Aisaka who?

If you think he was a big tsundere before, well you are sorely mistaken.

He will act all tsundere even if you did something as small as a hello. 

“Hey Levi-” “BAKA!”

His brothers would be laughing hysterically at how ridiculous he’s acting. Meanwhile, you’d be wondering what’s wrong with Levi.

He’s just a blushing mess.

Satan

If the cards showing pictures of drunk Satan mean anything, it certainly means that he’ll be a very silly drunk.

He’d be giggling for no reason at all and you’d just be clueless on what’s so funny.

“Hehehe.” “Satan, please tell me what’s so funny.”

If you kiss him when he’s drunk he will literally stop functioning. 

If you do anything affectionate with him, LIKE anything at all, he’ll be like: satan.exe has stopped working.

Satan’s two main emotions: Hysterical and Flustered.

Asmodeus

Flirt percentage: 100%

Telling you every pickup line in existence.

“Do you have a name, or shall I call you mine?” “Asmo, please, I can’t sleep if you keep flirting with me.”

Is gonna be more fierce ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°).

You might end up waking up to a drunk Asmodeus leaving hickies on your neck for no reason.

If you thought he was flirty before, you are sorely mistaken.

Beelzebub

You need to keep any alcohol out of his vicinity. He would drink it all in a matter of seconds.

You’re arms would feel tired from pushing Beel away from the alcohols hidden location.

“MC, please let me have more.” “Beel, no.”

He’s going to be very clumsy and might fall down the stairs if nobody is there.

He’ll literally attack the fridge and eat everything inside without a moments notice. 

Lucifer might have to bind him down to a chair.

Belphegor

Completely different person.

He’d be super energetic and hyper. He’d want to do a lot of activities such as sports.

“MC! Let’s play some football.” “Belphie, we don’t even have a pigskin.”

He would ask Beel if he’d want to workout together, but you managed to convince Beel to disagree for fear that something bad might happen.

He would literally cuss at Diavolo if their in the same room and would actually attack him.

Lucifer might also have to bind him down to a chair, only if Diavolo is there.

[uispeccoll]

#ArtsyFriday  

What can we say, we love books! Enjoy this glimpse of a beautiful one--Only Love, a collaborative artists’ book featuring haiku poetry from jeweler and blacksmith Albion Smith in a Peter and Donna Thomas made book. Created in 2016 in a run of 30 copies, the piece features haiku from the master jeweler in a bronze ornamented black pigskin binding. The 1,217 letters printed throughout were handsawn from copper sheet, mounted on blocks, and handprinted onto handmade colored papers made from Albion’s workclothes made by Peter and Albion. The artists’ book is accompanied by a booklet on the making of the book. The book is an excellent exemplar of the possibilities of intricate details and collaboration between artists, the books they create, and the readers who have the luck to enjoy them.  

Happy Valentine’s Day! May it include books and chocolate. ♡

--Laura 

x-Collection N7433.4 .S5515 O5 2016 

[uchicagoscrc]

Today we bid a fond farewell to Special Collections Project Cataloger, Jennifer Dunlap, as she embarks on a new adventure at the Houghton Library at Harvard University. We wish her well! Jennifer’s parting gift to us (and you!) is a highlight of some of her favorite items here at the UChicago Special Collections Research Center. 

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1. Duns Scotus’ Ordinatio I. [Venice] : [Johannes Herbort, de Seligenstadt, for Johannes de Colonia, Nicolaus Jenson et Socii], [1481]. This volume contains the first part of Duns Scotus’ Ordinatio or Quaestiones in quattuor libros Sententiarum (commentary on the Sentences of Peter Lombard). This volume is perhaps the most interesting binding of all the SCRC incunabula featuring blind tooled pigskin over wooden boards with brass “furniture” (metal attachments on the cover, usually to protect the binding), catches, and clasps. (Incun 1481.D9 Rare c.1) 

2.  Boethius. Boetius De philosophico consolatu … [Strassburg] : [Johann Grüniger], [1501]. Aside from the wonderful hand-colored woodcut illustrations, SCRC’s copy is full of provenance information including annotations, manicules, former owner’s inscriptions, and a few manuscript poems. (alc B659.D2 1501 Rare)

3. Barentsz, Willem. Deliniatio cartae trium navigationum per Batavos, ad Septentrionaelm plagam, Norvegiae, Moscoviae, et Nova Semblae … [Amsterdam] : [Cornelius Nicolai], [1598]. This map was produced to highlight the three expeditions undertaken by Dutch explorer and cartographer Willem Barentsz (c.1550-1597) between 1594 and 1597 in search of a Northeast Passage. It depicts he Arctic regions including Greenland, Iceland, northern Scandinavia, and northern Russia, as well as the routes that Barentsz’ ships took, not to mention numerous map monsters. (alc ff G3270 1598.B3)

4. Tennyson, Alfred. The ode by Alfred Tennyson on the opening of the Exhibition, 1862. [Coventry] : [Charles Newsome], [1862]. Part of the Gerald N. Wachs Collection of Nineteenth-Century English Poetry, this silk souvenir ribbon from the 1862 International Exhibition features Tennyson’s Ode on the opening of the Exhibition and a woven image of the Crystal Palace, where the exhibition was held. Tennyson was asked to write a piece which would be set to music by composer William Sterndale Bennett and performed at the opening of the Exhibition. The ribbon was designed by Edwin Rollason and produced by ribbon manufacturer Charles Newsome of Coventry. Newsome’s intertwined monogram appears at the top of the design in gold and cream. (ff PR5568.O15 1862)

5. Apian, Peter. Astronomicum Caesareum. [Ingolstadt] : [Peter Apian], [May 1540]. Another beautiful hand-colored 16th century imprint, this edition includes 22 volvelles, several of which feature the striking dragon design seen on the title page. SCRC’s copy is inscribed by Tycho Brahe to mathematician and astronomer Paul Wittich. (alc ff QB41.A639 1540 Rare)

6. Gart der Gesundheit. [Augsburg] : [Johann Schönsperger], [5 June 1486]. This German herbal printed in 1486 includes a wonderful example of a printer’s error, that of fallen type, near the end of the text. Fallen type occurs when a piece of type gets snagged on the leather covering of the ink balls while one of the pressmen is inking the form, gets pulled out of its place in the form, and ends up getting imprinted long-wise onto the page. These errors are fairly infrequent as the error would typically be noticed when the paper was removed from the press and the printer would return the fallen type to its place in the form and continue on with the job. (Incun 1486.G17 RareCr)

7. Dante Alighieri. [Divina commedia]. [Venice] : [Bartolomeo de Zanni de Portesio], [17 June 1507]. This copy of the 1507 printing of Dante’s Divine comedy has been heavily censored, probably in accordance with "Index librorum prohibitorum et expurgatorum ... D. Sandoval ex Roxas" of 1612, with the questionable sections of the text completely crossed out with wide vertical stripes of ink. (PQ4302.B07)

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[upennmanuscripts]

Ms. Codex 1079 is a treatise on the cultivation of virtue and avoidance of sin within the framework of Christian teachings, written in Germany in 1433. Its impressive binding is contemporary pigskin over wooden boards, with two strap-like clasps

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[jamesgraybooksellerworld]

Sammelband of Six Aristotle Science Texts from the sixteenth century.

A truly striking pig blind stamped pigskin binding over wooden boards with a blind stamped image of Aristotle, with eight works of Aristotle on scientific subjects. All rare editions. 688J sammelband ARISTOTELES. Physicorum Aristotelis libri. [Of Physics]. Joanne Argyropylo & Francis. Vatablo interprete. Bound with: ARISTOTELES. De caelo libri quatuor. [Of Heaven]. I. Argyropylo interprete.…

[thebeautifulbook]

IDYLLS OF THE KING by Alfred Lord Tennyson. (London: Edward Moxon, 1859) Art binding by Sangorski and Sutcliffe.

A magnificent binding in dark blue blue morocco, bejeweled, mother of pearl inlays, all edges gilt, white pigskin end leaves.

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Our copy of Johan Hervagius' 1557 edition of Herodotus features a particularly fine alum-tawed pigskin binding. The two portraits are of the reformers Martin Luther and Philip Melanchthon. PA4002 .A2 1557 #herodotus #martinluther #philipmelanchthon #johanhervagius #finebinding #bibliophile #bookstagram #booklover #rarebooks #specialcollections #librariesofinstagram #iglibraries #mizzou #universityofmissouri #ellislibrary #ifttt