Bookbindings
Michael Gullick
There are four main operations in binding a manuscript: first, sewing the quires together; second, attaching boards; third, covering and, last, decorating covers. Medieval bindings with wooden boards can be divided into three types such as Carolingian, Romanesque, and Gothic. This chapter provides an account of Stonyhurst Gospel its relatives, English Carolingian early Romanesque bindings, followed by discussion some other kinds evidence concerning pre- post-Conquest bindings. The Victor Codex covered red skin decorated small blindstamped tools type. Two mid-eleventh-century gospel-books made for Judith, later countess Flanders, still have silver-gilt treasure A ninth-century Continental manuscript limp cover was at Malmesbury, it there twelfth when used William Malmesbury.
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