Extra glossary

Question 1

Cadel

Answer 1

A cadel is a calligraphic decorative extension to the ascending or descending strokes of letters, usually on the first or last lines of a page. They sometimes feature human or animal heads.

Question 2

3 basic forms of binding

Answer 2

Leather or parchment.
Leather cover on wooden borads (most common)
Treasure bindings (liturgical. Lot of stones and metal)

Question 3

Gilt edge

Answer 3

Gold on edge

Question 4

Supralibros

Answer 4

A bit like ex libris

-Mark of ownership stamped on cover of book
-Monogram or coat of arms
-Only used from early modern period onward

Question 5

2 ways of blind tooling

Answer 5

1. Stamping the design onto wet leather binding
   -Pattern is visible but no color change
   2.Work pattern into leather with hot metal tool
   -Motif would have darker color

Question 6

Fenestra

Answer 6

-small window on front
-Piece of parchment with title or author is put behind fenestra

Question 7

Ball taps

Answer 7

-made from colored leather pasted to other margins
-Worked like bookmarks
-Important texts were marked with ball-taps

Question 8

3 ways to order quires

Answer 8

1, roman numeral on center of lower margin
on first page of quire. Often lost when pages
are trimmed
2, Catchwords/stitch words. Became
common 13th
3, Leaf signatures. First letter/symbol for quire. Later roman numeral for bifolio. Lower right side

Question 9

Examples of special book bindings

Answer 9

Girdle books, book cases, vade mecum

Question 10

Girdle book

Answer 10

-Meant to be carried under belt with a hook
-Large piece of leather turned into a knot that fastens to belt
-Only 25 survived in the world – because of outdated texts and wear and tear
-Devotional texts
-Should not be confused with chemise

Question 11

Book cases

Answer 11

-Small
-To be worn around neck

Question 12

Vade mecum

Answer 12

-Piece of paper or parchment
-Almanac or medical information on several sheets
-Folded in a way that you don’t have to sit down to read

Question 13

Willem de Vreese

Answer 13

Goals: Wanted to know what was written in the medieval manuscripts.
1, A survey of all medieval, handwritten books in Dutch texts.
2, Collect the data to describe history of all things written in Dutch during the Middle Ages as a coherent whole.
-Describing as many manuscripts as possible himself
-Collecting existing descriptions by others

-Index cards with previous owners – over 300.000 index cards written
-Descriptions of manuscripts

Question 14

Albert Derolez

Answer 14

Scheme, columns. 1I1, ex.

Question 15

Glosa cum textu incluso

Answer 15

Scheme, normal text columns surrounded by glossa

Question 16

terminus ad quem

Answer 16

The latest possible date that a manuscript could have been written after a certain point in time.

Question 17

terminus ante quem

Answer 17

The earliest possible date that a manuscript could have been written.

Question 18

terminus post quem

Answer 18

The latest possible date that a manuscript could have been written.