“Manuscript waste binding” on Faustus Andrelinus, De influentia siderum, Paris: Denis Roche, [1497-1499].
The client requested that an incunabulum pamphlet be bound in “manuscript waste” as was common for cheaper bindings in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. For this project, a new manuscript was created by calligrapher Maryanne Grebenstein.
Conservation treatment:
The folds were mended with kozo paper using wheat starch paste.
There is a single bifolio of Griffen Mill handmade Falcon paper as flyleaves.
The single section was attached to the vellum cover using two vellum tackets.
Conserved in 2020.
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