The Codex and Crafts in Late Antiquity

Georgios Boudalis (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

200 Seiten

2020
Bard Graduate Center, Exhibitions Department (Verlag)
978-1-941792-12-4 (ISBN)

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The transition from roll to codex as the standard format of the book is one of the most culturally significant innovations of Late Antiquity. The Codex and Crafts in Late Antiquity examines surviving evidence in order to better understand how this transition took place. Placing the codex into the general cultural, religious, and technological context of Late Antiquity, the book examines the major types of codices the wooden tablet codex, the single-quire codex and the multi-quire codex in all their structural, technical, and decorative features. Georgios Boudalis argues that the codex was not an ingenious invention but rather an innovation that evolved using techniques already widely employed by artisans and craftspeople in the creation of everyday items such as socks, shoes, and baskets, revealing that the codex was a fascinating, yet practical, development.

Georgios Boudalis is the senior book and paper conservator at the Museum of Byzantine Culture, Thessaloniki, Greece.

Director’s Foreword
Foreword
Acknowledgments
Introduction: The Innovation of the Codex in Late Antiquity
Part I: The Precursors of the Multigathering Codex
One: The Wooden Tablet Codex
Two: The Single-Gathering Codex

Part II: The Multigathering Codex
Three: The Multigathering Codex: Introduction
Four: The Sewing of the Gatherings
Five: The Boards and Their Attachment
Six: The Spine Lining
Seven: The Endbands
Eight: The Cover and Its Decoration
Nine: The Fastenings
Ten: The Bookmarks and Board Corner Straps

Conclusion
Checklist of Objects in the Exhibition
Bibliography
Index

Erscheinungsdatum	18.04.2018
Verlagsort	New York
Sprache	englisch
Maße	179 x 221 mm
Gewicht	470 g
Themenwelt	Sonstiges ► Geschenkbücher
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Archäologie
	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Vor- und Frühgeschichte
	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Altertum / Antike
ISBN-10	1-941792-12-X / 194179212X
ISBN-13	978-1-941792-12-4 / 9781941792124
Zustand	Neuware