{"id":458,"date":"2013-07-30T18:13:28","date_gmt":"2013-07-30T22:13:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/scref\/?p=458"},"modified":"2013-07-30T18:31:57","modified_gmt":"2013-07-30T22:31:57","slug":"binding-of-the-day-reuse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/scref\/2013\/07\/30\/binding-of-the-day-reuse\/","title":{"rendered":"Binding of the Day: Reuse"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/hollis.harvard.edu\/?itemid=|library\/m\/aleph|007261453\">GC5.W7854.589b<\/a><br \/>\nGerman treatise about Bezoars (made famous these days by Harry Potter). Caught my eye as parchment reuse in a limp binding, with remains of ties.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/scref\/files\/2013\/07\/13-4.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-462\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/scref\/files\/2013\/07\/13-4-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"GC5.W7854.589b upper cover\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/scref\/files\/2013\/07\/13-4-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/scref\/files\/2013\/07\/13-4.jpg 507w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Upper Cover, with reused parchment from late medieval (gothic) latin manuscript.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/scref\/files\/2013\/07\/13-3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-463\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/scref\/files\/2013\/07\/13-3-300x84.jpg\" alt=\"GC5.W7854.589b spine\" width=\"300\" height=\"84\" srcset=\"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/scref\/files\/2013\/07\/13-3-300x84.jpg 300w, https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/scref\/files\/2013\/07\/13-3-1024x286.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/scref\/files\/2013\/07\/13-3.jpg 1117w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Spine, with dye or some other coloring to hide parchment &#8211; make it look more like leather?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/scref\/files\/2013\/07\/13-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-464\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/scref\/files\/2013\/07\/13-2-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"GC5.W7854.589b lower cover\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/scref\/files\/2013\/07\/13-2-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/scref\/files\/2013\/07\/13-2.jpg 901w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>lower cover, more of the same manuscript<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/scref\/files\/2013\/07\/13-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-465\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/scref\/files\/2013\/07\/13-1-300x224.jpg\" alt=\"GC5.W7854.589b end-leaves\" width=\"300\" height=\"224\" srcset=\"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/scref\/files\/2013\/07\/13-1-300x224.jpg 300w, https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/scref\/files\/2013\/07\/13-1.jpg 959w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>inside lower cover, showing the limp structure, and the verso of the same manuscript, with better preserved color in the rubricated letter<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GC5.W7854.589b German treatise about Bezoars (made famous these days by Harry Potter). Caught my eye as parchment reuse in a limp binding, with remains of ties. Upper Cover, with reused parchment from late medieval (gothic) latin manuscript. Spine, with dye or some other coloring to hide parchment &#8211; make it look more like leather? lower [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2032,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[45106,45105,4600],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-458","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bookbinding","category-cool-stuff","category-paleography"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/scref\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/458","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/scref\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/scref\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/scref\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2032"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/scref\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=458"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/scref\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/458\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":461,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/scref\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/458\/revisions\/461"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/scref\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=458"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/scref\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=458"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/scref\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=458"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}