30-07-2018, 08:04 PM
It would be highly unusual for the manuscript to be bound before it was done.
In the middle ages, manuscripts were typically bound by the owner, not the people who created it. It was a two-step process. It's like buying a painting. The buyer purchases a painting and then takes it to a frame shop and picks out the colors and style of the frame.
A manuscript that was already bound was considered "second-hand" in those days.
That's not to say it couldn't happen, but it would be outside the norm.
In the middle ages, manuscripts were typically bound by the owner, not the people who created it. It was a two-step process. It's like buying a painting. The buyer purchases a painting and then takes it to a frame shop and picks out the colors and style of the frame.
A manuscript that was already bound was considered "second-hand" in those days.
That's not to say it couldn't happen, but it would be outside the norm.