29-09-2020, 12:11 AM
(28-09-2020, 02:16 PM)RenegadeHealer Wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.
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So if all of the above was typically true, technically books were "sold unbound", when they were commissioned copies of other books made by scriptoria. The sale was from the scriptorium to the commissioner. But what I'm not sure about, was how commonly an unbound book typically changed hands for money in any other instances. Can anyone else weigh in on this?
I think this must have happened fairly regularly because many manuscripts remained unbound for decades or centuries. The binding and foliation are often in a style that is much later than the original, and yet the provenance will sometimes list several owners (when they are known).
It was also moderately common for books to be rebound.