pasteboards

Ingredients

sheets of paper, glue

Preparation Steps

Original Recipe Text

The most common boards were pasteboards which consisted of layers of sheets of paper, often reused, placed one on top of the other and glued together (p. 29). This same technique was used for papier maché in connection with lacquered bindings (p. 29). Al-Ishbili mentions that a pasteboard for a case binding (shidq) was made of one piece of parchment and two sheets of paper (p. 29).

Evidence

"The most common boards were pasteboards which consisted of layers of sheets of paper, often reused, placed one on top of the other and glued together."

Remarks

Originally, wooden boards made from cedar, poplar, fig, tamarisk, and pine trees were used for parchment codices. After the introduction of paper, pasteboards became the standard. In Type III bindings, boards could also be made of cartonnage or cardboard (p. 29). Early box structures were noted for their structural fragility, which often required spines to be re-backed (p. 24).