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Title
A name given to the resource
From Pigskin to Paper: The Art and Craft of Bookbinding. Online exhibition
Contributor
An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource
Various collectors
Abstract
A summary of the resource.
The book that has the earliest English binding in New Zealand was printed in Venice in July 1481. Its binding is dark-brown calfskin over wooden boards. The spine has four raised bands, with a late 19th century red label attached. There are remnants of two catches and clasps. The end-leaves are vellum and paper. Within a central block design the blind stamped punches of birds, animals, and floral designs are arranged singly in horizontal rows. There are blind-stamped fillets. Somehow, this book ended up in Oxford, England, where about 1482 it gained its covers from a 15th century bookbinder called the Rood and Hunt Binder. Not only does the text (a Commentary on the Bible) carry the earliest English binding in New Zealand, but it carries within its pages fragments of indulgences printed by William Caxton, England’s first printer, c1480.
Wooden boards, raised bands, end-leaves, vellum, blind-stamped, and fillets are all part of the language of the bookbinder. An exhibition entitled From Pigskin to Paper: The Art and Craft of Bookbinding will begin at Special Collections, University of Otago Library on 20 December 2012. The exhibition aims to decode the jargon used by bookbinders, and showcase the creative ‘art and craft’ skills evident in all aspects of the binding process, from forwarding (construction) to finishing (decoration). To highlight the processes, a wide cross-section of binding styles will be exhibited, from the 1481 Rood and Hunt binding and 16th century European samples, to publisher’s case-bindings and those styled art nouveau. Books bound by local Dunedin binders will also feature. The exhibition runs to 22 March 2013.
There is an increasing amount of scholarly work done on the binders who create the outer garments that contain (and protect) the text-block. There is also more intensive work done examining the structural components of bindings, especially by conservators. Whether they are hand-bound calfskin, pigskin, or vellum examples from the hand-press period (and thereby unique objects), or machine-made mass-produced ones from the early 19th century, bindings do provide information on the book trade, how books were sold, how they were to be used, what were the prevailing fashions, what tools the binder owned, and in cases, the owner’s taste and standing. Indeed, as book historian David Pearson claims: ‘all historic bindings are potentially interesting, however fine (or not) they look’.
Each major library in New Zealand has its fair share of decorative, fine bindings, with the name of the binder often stamped inside: Zaehnsdorf; Sangorski & Sutcliffe; Cockerell. There are also those books known to be bound by famous binders such as Samuel Mearne, Roger Payne, or Charles Lewis. Of course, the vast majority of bindings are simple, plain, and functional, and carry no signature or famous name. If not a recognisable publisher’s house-style, most of them remain anonymous representatives, silent witnesses to the past.
Dublin Core
The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/.
Title
A name given to the resource
Commentariorvm Fratris Dominici Soto
Abstract
A summary of the resource.
The University catalogue entry states that this 1100 plus page commentary by the Dominican priest Domingo de Soto (1494-1560) is bound in vellum. In fact, the outer garment of this work printed in Venice in 1584 is pigskin, wrapped over board just visible at the frayed edges. The brass clasps are intact, and were probably made by a professional metalworker rather than the binder. The centrepiece of foliage is surrounded by another panel of flowers and small medallion portraits. Outside this frame are barely visible blind-stamped images of some of Christ’s followers: Mark (‘Marcus’ on right) and John (‘Johann’ at bottom). The leaf edges of this work have been adorned with a restrained blue-green colouring.
Creator
An entity primarily responsible for making the resource
Domingo de Soto
Publisher
An entity responsible for making the resource available
[Venice: Hieronymo Zenaro] & Fratres
Date
A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource
1584-1589
Identifier
An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context
Shoults Itb 1584 S
Bindings
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Title
A name given to the resource
From Pigskin to Paper: The Art and Craft of Bookbinding. Online exhibition
Contributor
An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource
Various collectors
Abstract
A summary of the resource.
The book that has the earliest English binding in New Zealand was printed in Venice in July 1481. Its binding is dark-brown calfskin over wooden boards. The spine has four raised bands, with a late 19th century red label attached. There are remnants of two catches and clasps. The end-leaves are vellum and paper. Within a central block design the blind stamped punches of birds, animals, and floral designs are arranged singly in horizontal rows. There are blind-stamped fillets. Somehow, this book ended up in Oxford, England, where about 1482 it gained its covers from a 15th century bookbinder called the Rood and Hunt Binder. Not only does the text (a Commentary on the Bible) carry the earliest English binding in New Zealand, but it carries within its pages fragments of indulgences printed by William Caxton, England’s first printer, c1480.
Wooden boards, raised bands, end-leaves, vellum, blind-stamped, and fillets are all part of the language of the bookbinder. An exhibition entitled From Pigskin to Paper: The Art and Craft of Bookbinding will begin at Special Collections, University of Otago Library on 20 December 2012. The exhibition aims to decode the jargon used by bookbinders, and showcase the creative ‘art and craft’ skills evident in all aspects of the binding process, from forwarding (construction) to finishing (decoration). To highlight the processes, a wide cross-section of binding styles will be exhibited, from the 1481 Rood and Hunt binding and 16th century European samples, to publisher’s case-bindings and those styled art nouveau. Books bound by local Dunedin binders will also feature. The exhibition runs to 22 March 2013.
There is an increasing amount of scholarly work done on the binders who create the outer garments that contain (and protect) the text-block. There is also more intensive work done examining the structural components of bindings, especially by conservators. Whether they are hand-bound calfskin, pigskin, or vellum examples from the hand-press period (and thereby unique objects), or machine-made mass-produced ones from the early 19th century, bindings do provide information on the book trade, how books were sold, how they were to be used, what were the prevailing fashions, what tools the binder owned, and in cases, the owner’s taste and standing. Indeed, as book historian David Pearson claims: ‘all historic bindings are potentially interesting, however fine (or not) they look’.
Each major library in New Zealand has its fair share of decorative, fine bindings, with the name of the binder often stamped inside: Zaehnsdorf; Sangorski & Sutcliffe; Cockerell. There are also those books known to be bound by famous binders such as Samuel Mearne, Roger Payne, or Charles Lewis. Of course, the vast majority of bindings are simple, plain, and functional, and carry no signature or famous name. If not a recognisable publisher’s house-style, most of them remain anonymous representatives, silent witnesses to the past.
Dublin Core
The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/.
Title
A name given to the resource
Commentariorvm Fratris Dominici Soto
Abstract
A summary of the resource.
The University catalogue entry states that this 1100 plus page commentary by the Dominican priest Domingo de Soto (1494-1560) is bound in vellum. In fact, the outer garment of this work printed in Venice in 1584 is pigskin, wrapped over board just visible at the frayed edges. The brass clasps are intact, and were probably made by a professional metalworker rather than the binder. The centrepiece of foliage is surrounded by another panel of flowers and small medallion portraits. Outside this frame are barely visible blind-stamped images of some of Christ’s followers: Mark (‘Marcus’ on right) and John (‘Johann’ at bottom). The leaf edges of this work have been adorned with a restrained blue-green colouring.
Creator
An entity primarily responsible for making the resource
Domingo de Soto
Publisher
An entity responsible for making the resource available
[Venice: Hieronymo Zenaro] & Fratres
Date
A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource
1584-1589
Identifier
An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context
Shoults Itb 1584 S
Bindings
pigskin
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The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/.
Title
A name given to the resource
From Pigskin to Paper: The Art and Craft of Bookbinding. Online exhibition
Contributor
An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource
Various collectors
Abstract
A summary of the resource.
The book that has the earliest English binding in New Zealand was printed in Venice in July 1481. Its binding is dark-brown calfskin over wooden boards. The spine has four raised bands, with a late 19th century red label attached. There are remnants of two catches and clasps. The end-leaves are vellum and paper. Within a central block design the blind stamped punches of birds, animals, and floral designs are arranged singly in horizontal rows. There are blind-stamped fillets. Somehow, this book ended up in Oxford, England, where about 1482 it gained its covers from a 15th century bookbinder called the Rood and Hunt Binder. Not only does the text (a Commentary on the Bible) carry the earliest English binding in New Zealand, but it carries within its pages fragments of indulgences printed by William Caxton, England’s first printer, c1480.
Wooden boards, raised bands, end-leaves, vellum, blind-stamped, and fillets are all part of the language of the bookbinder. An exhibition entitled From Pigskin to Paper: The Art and Craft of Bookbinding will begin at Special Collections, University of Otago Library on 20 December 2012. The exhibition aims to decode the jargon used by bookbinders, and showcase the creative ‘art and craft’ skills evident in all aspects of the binding process, from forwarding (construction) to finishing (decoration). To highlight the processes, a wide cross-section of binding styles will be exhibited, from the 1481 Rood and Hunt binding and 16th century European samples, to publisher’s case-bindings and those styled art nouveau. Books bound by local Dunedin binders will also feature. The exhibition runs to 22 March 2013.
There is an increasing amount of scholarly work done on the binders who create the outer garments that contain (and protect) the text-block. There is also more intensive work done examining the structural components of bindings, especially by conservators. Whether they are hand-bound calfskin, pigskin, or vellum examples from the hand-press period (and thereby unique objects), or machine-made mass-produced ones from the early 19th century, bindings do provide information on the book trade, how books were sold, how they were to be used, what were the prevailing fashions, what tools the binder owned, and in cases, the owner’s taste and standing. Indeed, as book historian David Pearson claims: ‘all historic bindings are potentially interesting, however fine (or not) they look’.
Each major library in New Zealand has its fair share of decorative, fine bindings, with the name of the binder often stamped inside: Zaehnsdorf; Sangorski & Sutcliffe; Cockerell. There are also those books known to be bound by famous binders such as Samuel Mearne, Roger Payne, or Charles Lewis. Of course, the vast majority of bindings are simple, plain, and functional, and carry no signature or famous name. If not a recognisable publisher’s house-style, most of them remain anonymous representatives, silent witnesses to the past.
Dublin Core
The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/.
Title
A name given to the resource
Commentariorvm Fratris Dominici Soto
Abstract
A summary of the resource.
The University catalogue entry states that this 1100 plus page commentary by the Dominican priest Domingo de Soto (1494-1560) is bound in vellum. In fact, the outer garment of this work printed in Venice in 1584 is pigskin, wrapped over board just visible at the frayed edges. The brass clasps are intact, and were probably made by a professional metalworker rather than the binder. The centrepiece of foliage is surrounded by another panel of flowers and small medallion portraits. Outside this frame are barely visible blind-stamped images of some of Christ’s followers: Mark (‘Marcus’ on right) and John (‘Johann’ at bottom). The leaf edges of this work have been adorned with a restrained blue-green colouring.
Creator
An entity primarily responsible for making the resource
Domingo de Soto
Publisher
An entity responsible for making the resource available
[Venice: Hieronymo Zenaro] & Fratres
Date
A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource
1584-1589
Identifier
An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context
Shoults Itb 1584 S
Bindings
pigskin
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The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/.
Title
A name given to the resource
From Pigskin to Paper: The Art and Craft of Bookbinding. Online exhibition
Contributor
An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource
Various collectors
Abstract
A summary of the resource.
The book that has the earliest English binding in New Zealand was printed in Venice in July 1481. Its binding is dark-brown calfskin over wooden boards. The spine has four raised bands, with a late 19th century red label attached. There are remnants of two catches and clasps. The end-leaves are vellum and paper. Within a central block design the blind stamped punches of birds, animals, and floral designs are arranged singly in horizontal rows. There are blind-stamped fillets. Somehow, this book ended up in Oxford, England, where about 1482 it gained its covers from a 15th century bookbinder called the Rood and Hunt Binder. Not only does the text (a Commentary on the Bible) carry the earliest English binding in New Zealand, but it carries within its pages fragments of indulgences printed by William Caxton, England’s first printer, c1480.
Wooden boards, raised bands, end-leaves, vellum, blind-stamped, and fillets are all part of the language of the bookbinder. An exhibition entitled From Pigskin to Paper: The Art and Craft of Bookbinding will begin at Special Collections, University of Otago Library on 20 December 2012. The exhibition aims to decode the jargon used by bookbinders, and showcase the creative ‘art and craft’ skills evident in all aspects of the binding process, from forwarding (construction) to finishing (decoration). To highlight the processes, a wide cross-section of binding styles will be exhibited, from the 1481 Rood and Hunt binding and 16th century European samples, to publisher’s case-bindings and those styled art nouveau. Books bound by local Dunedin binders will also feature. The exhibition runs to 22 March 2013.
There is an increasing amount of scholarly work done on the binders who create the outer garments that contain (and protect) the text-block. There is also more intensive work done examining the structural components of bindings, especially by conservators. Whether they are hand-bound calfskin, pigskin, or vellum examples from the hand-press period (and thereby unique objects), or machine-made mass-produced ones from the early 19th century, bindings do provide information on the book trade, how books were sold, how they were to be used, what were the prevailing fashions, what tools the binder owned, and in cases, the owner’s taste and standing. Indeed, as book historian David Pearson claims: ‘all historic bindings are potentially interesting, however fine (or not) they look’.
Each major library in New Zealand has its fair share of decorative, fine bindings, with the name of the binder often stamped inside: Zaehnsdorf; Sangorski & Sutcliffe; Cockerell. There are also those books known to be bound by famous binders such as Samuel Mearne, Roger Payne, or Charles Lewis. Of course, the vast majority of bindings are simple, plain, and functional, and carry no signature or famous name. If not a recognisable publisher’s house-style, most of them remain anonymous representatives, silent witnesses to the past.
Dublin Core
The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/.
Title
A name given to the resource
Neue Laussnitz-Bohm- und Schlesische chronica
Abstract
A summary of the resource.
Heinrich Roch’s chronicles of Lusatia (Germany), Bohemia (Czech Republic), Silesia, and other areas, is dressed in a pigskin binding. Pigskin is an inflexible material and does not take blocking well. The binder has done his best to apply the images of flowers, dots, fleur-de-lys, and lozenges that make up the design. Indeed, the year the binding was applied has long disappeared, with only the word ‘ANNO’ barely visible in the top panel above the black-inked stamped crest, which itself is hardly distinguishable. One clasp remains. Roch’s chronicle is renowned as a source recording earthquakes, great fires and floods in Europe, and vampirism.
Creator
An entity primarily responsible for making the resource
Heinrich Roch
Publisher
An entity responsible for making the resource available
Leipzig: Johann Herbordt Klossen,
Date
A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource
1687
Identifier
An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context
de Beer Gb 1687 R
Bindings
pigskin
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The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/.
Title
A name given to the resource
From Pigskin to Paper: The Art and Craft of Bookbinding. Online exhibition
Contributor
An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource
Various collectors
Abstract
A summary of the resource.
The book that has the earliest English binding in New Zealand was printed in Venice in July 1481. Its binding is dark-brown calfskin over wooden boards. The spine has four raised bands, with a late 19th century red label attached. There are remnants of two catches and clasps. The end-leaves are vellum and paper. Within a central block design the blind stamped punches of birds, animals, and floral designs are arranged singly in horizontal rows. There are blind-stamped fillets. Somehow, this book ended up in Oxford, England, where about 1482 it gained its covers from a 15th century bookbinder called the Rood and Hunt Binder. Not only does the text (a Commentary on the Bible) carry the earliest English binding in New Zealand, but it carries within its pages fragments of indulgences printed by William Caxton, England’s first printer, c1480.
Wooden boards, raised bands, end-leaves, vellum, blind-stamped, and fillets are all part of the language of the bookbinder. An exhibition entitled From Pigskin to Paper: The Art and Craft of Bookbinding will begin at Special Collections, University of Otago Library on 20 December 2012. The exhibition aims to decode the jargon used by bookbinders, and showcase the creative ‘art and craft’ skills evident in all aspects of the binding process, from forwarding (construction) to finishing (decoration). To highlight the processes, a wide cross-section of binding styles will be exhibited, from the 1481 Rood and Hunt binding and 16th century European samples, to publisher’s case-bindings and those styled art nouveau. Books bound by local Dunedin binders will also feature. The exhibition runs to 22 March 2013.
There is an increasing amount of scholarly work done on the binders who create the outer garments that contain (and protect) the text-block. There is also more intensive work done examining the structural components of bindings, especially by conservators. Whether they are hand-bound calfskin, pigskin, or vellum examples from the hand-press period (and thereby unique objects), or machine-made mass-produced ones from the early 19th century, bindings do provide information on the book trade, how books were sold, how they were to be used, what were the prevailing fashions, what tools the binder owned, and in cases, the owner’s taste and standing. Indeed, as book historian David Pearson claims: ‘all historic bindings are potentially interesting, however fine (or not) they look’.
Each major library in New Zealand has its fair share of decorative, fine bindings, with the name of the binder often stamped inside: Zaehnsdorf; Sangorski & Sutcliffe; Cockerell. There are also those books known to be bound by famous binders such as Samuel Mearne, Roger Payne, or Charles Lewis. Of course, the vast majority of bindings are simple, plain, and functional, and carry no signature or famous name. If not a recognisable publisher’s house-style, most of them remain anonymous representatives, silent witnesses to the past.
Dublin Core
The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/.
Title
A name given to the resource
Neue Laussnitz-Bohm- und Schlesische chronica
Abstract
A summary of the resource.
Heinrich Roch’s chronicles of Lusatia (Germany), Bohemia (Czech Republic), Silesia, and other areas, is dressed in a pigskin binding. Pigskin is an inflexible material and does not take blocking well. The binder has done his best to apply the images of flowers, dots, fleur-de-lys, and lozenges that make up the design. Indeed, the year the binding was applied has long disappeared, with only the word ‘ANNO’ barely visible in the top panel above the black-inked stamped crest, which itself is hardly distinguishable. One clasp remains. Roch’s chronicle is renowned as a source recording earthquakes, great fires and floods in Europe, and vampirism.
Creator
An entity primarily responsible for making the resource
Heinrich Roch
Publisher
An entity responsible for making the resource available
Leipzig: Johann Herbordt Klossen
Date
A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource
1687
Identifier
An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context
de Beer Gb 1687 R
Bindings
pigskin
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Dublin Core
The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/.
Title
A name given to the resource
From Pigskin to Paper: The Art and Craft of Bookbinding. Online exhibition
Contributor
An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource
Various collectors
Abstract
A summary of the resource.
The book that has the earliest English binding in New Zealand was printed in Venice in July 1481. Its binding is dark-brown calfskin over wooden boards. The spine has four raised bands, with a late 19th century red label attached. There are remnants of two catches and clasps. The end-leaves are vellum and paper. Within a central block design the blind stamped punches of birds, animals, and floral designs are arranged singly in horizontal rows. There are blind-stamped fillets. Somehow, this book ended up in Oxford, England, where about 1482 it gained its covers from a 15th century bookbinder called the Rood and Hunt Binder. Not only does the text (a Commentary on the Bible) carry the earliest English binding in New Zealand, but it carries within its pages fragments of indulgences printed by William Caxton, England’s first printer, c1480.
Wooden boards, raised bands, end-leaves, vellum, blind-stamped, and fillets are all part of the language of the bookbinder. An exhibition entitled From Pigskin to Paper: The Art and Craft of Bookbinding will begin at Special Collections, University of Otago Library on 20 December 2012. The exhibition aims to decode the jargon used by bookbinders, and showcase the creative ‘art and craft’ skills evident in all aspects of the binding process, from forwarding (construction) to finishing (decoration). To highlight the processes, a wide cross-section of binding styles will be exhibited, from the 1481 Rood and Hunt binding and 16th century European samples, to publisher’s case-bindings and those styled art nouveau. Books bound by local Dunedin binders will also feature. The exhibition runs to 22 March 2013.
There is an increasing amount of scholarly work done on the binders who create the outer garments that contain (and protect) the text-block. There is also more intensive work done examining the structural components of bindings, especially by conservators. Whether they are hand-bound calfskin, pigskin, or vellum examples from the hand-press period (and thereby unique objects), or machine-made mass-produced ones from the early 19th century, bindings do provide information on the book trade, how books were sold, how they were to be used, what were the prevailing fashions, what tools the binder owned, and in cases, the owner’s taste and standing. Indeed, as book historian David Pearson claims: ‘all historic bindings are potentially interesting, however fine (or not) they look’.
Each major library in New Zealand has its fair share of decorative, fine bindings, with the name of the binder often stamped inside: Zaehnsdorf; Sangorski & Sutcliffe; Cockerell. There are also those books known to be bound by famous binders such as Samuel Mearne, Roger Payne, or Charles Lewis. Of course, the vast majority of bindings are simple, plain, and functional, and carry no signature or famous name. If not a recognisable publisher’s house-style, most of them remain anonymous representatives, silent witnesses to the past.
Dublin Core
The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/.
Title
A name given to the resource
Sermones de Tempore
Abstract
A summary of the resource.
Pigskin was extensively used as a cover for books in northern Europe, in particular Germany, from where this manuscript of sermons originated. Pigskin can be differentiated from vellum by the characteristic follicle pattern of three little dots in triangular groups, as visible at the bottom of this cover. The pigskin is wrapped over bevelled wooden boards, and has blind-tooled diagonal lines that create a lozenge pattern known as the diaper design. The manuscript – supposedly a survivor of the Great Fire of London in 1666 – was once chained, with the remains of a chain hasp (a metal fastening) at top centre. The clasps over the fore-edge have also long gone.
Creator
An entity primarily responsible for making the resource
Conrad of Brundelsheim
Publisher
An entity responsible for making the resource available
___
Date
A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource
[Germany, 14th-15th century]
Identifier
An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context
Shoults MS.03
Bindings
pigskin