paper

Preparation Steps

Original Recipe Text

The paper gatherings are sewn to wooden boards. The sewing starts with a stopping knot at point A. Through diagonal channels opened through the board between the attachment holes and the spine edge, the thread follows a route to various points (B, C, E), then enters the centrefold of the first gathering (p. 91). The thread exits from each sewing station, loops around the board, and enters the second gathering at change-over station G (p. 91). Channels on the outer face are subsequently covered with extensions of the textile spine lining and the cover, leaving no sign of their presence (p. 92).

Evidence

"codex Veria, Dēmosia Kentrikē Bibliothēkē (Central Public Library), KB 9 (Politis 4) (Diktyon 9605) , a fourteenth-century lectionary written on paper, with a fifteenth-/sixteenth-century binding"

Remarks

The lectionary is a 14th-century work on paper. The binding, dated 15th/16th century, was analyzed during conservation. The inner face of the board bears no signs of threads, holes or channelling, while in the outer face of the board, there is a groove connecting all board attachment holes parallel to the spine in which the sewing thread is recessed (p. 91). V-shaped cuts are opened in the spines of the gatherings to facilitate the passage of the sewing thread and recess the bulk of the 'chains', allowing the spine of the volume to remain smooth (p. 84).