MST200Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Secular Clergy, Catte Street, Wynkyn De Worde
16 Nov 2016
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Codex surpasses scrolls, christians prefer codex, and so spread of christianity popularized codices. Codex more durable than papyrus, survive better in humidity, because it used parchment instead, made from animal skins (sheep, goat, sometimes deer, cow) Codices stack and store more efficiently, easily to search and flip through pages. Government used scrolls for records still into the 12th century. Vellum and parchment are the same thing, the term parchment refers to a legend of the city where it was created, and vellum means calf. Parchment was expensive, so paper started in the 13th century. Parchment was stretched and scraped, lime bath loosens fur. size of book depends on size of animal. Pages are rectangle because animals are long, not square. Pages covered in chalk so ink can absorb properly. Tears appear and are dealt with, left as is or decoratively stitched together. Manuscripts made of quires or gatherings of folios (pages) that are sewn together like modern books.
