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  2. Bookbinding - Wikipedia

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    Bookbinding is the process of building a book, usually in codex format, from an ordered stack of paper sheets with one's hands and tools, or in modern publishing, by a series of automated processes. Firstly, one binds the sheets of papers along an edge with a thick needle and strong thread. One can also use loose-leaf rings, binding posts, twin ...

  3. Traditional Chinese bookbinding - Wikipedia

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    Records of Wenlan Pavilion, an example of a stitched bound book, Qing dynasty. Yin shan zheng yao, 1330, Ming dynasty. Traditional Chinese bookbinding, also called stitched binding (Chinese: 線裝 xian zhuang), is the method of bookbinding that the Chinese, Koreans, Japanese, and Vietnamese used before adopting the modern codex form. [1]

  4. The Pit and the Pendulum - Wikipedia

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    The original source of the pendulum torture method is one paragraph in the preface of the 1826 book The history of the Inquisition of Spain by the Spanish priest, historian and activist Juan Antonio Llorente, [1] relating a second-hand account by a single prisoner released from the Inquisition's Madrid dungeon in 1820, who purportedly described ...

  5. Wasōbon - Wikipedia

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    This binding method was used primarily for hand-copied manuscripts. Tetsuyōsō (綴葉装), or "sewn books" Like glued books, these sewn books consist of double-wide paper folded to ordinary page width. Unlike glued books, however, in making sewn books, binders made stacks of approximately five double-wide sheets and then folded them.

  6. Finishing (bookbinding) - Wikipedia

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    In bookbinding, finishing refers to the process of decorating the outside of a book, including the lettering of the spine and covers, any additional tooling, and any inlays and onlays. Finishing can also include the gilding or other decoration of the edges of the book's pages. Example of blind tooling a book binding with exquisite detail.

  7. Fragmentology (manuscripts) - Wikipedia

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    Fragmentology is the study of surviving fragments of manuscripts (mainly manuscripts from the Middle Ages and the Renaissance in the case of European manuscript cultures). A manuscript fragment may consist of whole or partial leaves, typically made of parchment, conjugate pairs or sometimes gatherings of a parchment book or codex, or parts of ...

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