Cutting and Pasting Slips: Early Modern Compilation and Information Management
John Considine
Cutting up paper slips with pieces of information written on them, sorting them into alphabetical order or some other precise order, and pasting books was an important management strategy in early modern Europe. It does not seem to have been used the fifteenth century, but by 1548 it apparently known a number people, thereafter continued be eighteenth century and, for few purposes, beyond. The story use cut pasted is presented here from primary evidence surviving texts made slips, secondary references such texts.
Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies