This blog post covers a brief exploration of the quire and folio marks found in the Aberdeen bestiary. This topic expands upon my post about quire signatures, catchwords and foliation, which I genuinely recommend reading if you want to understand…
Having finished copying the fourth quire, I'm authoring the third update of my bestiary project. In this update, I briefly celebrate a minor milestone for having finished approximately one-third of writing all the text. This is followed by a brief look into the upcoming section of the exemplar manuscript, which covers many birds.
It seems that in the Middle Ages, they faced the challenge of keeping the contents of a book in the correct order. How would a medieval scribe ensure that a bookbinder keeps the loose gatherings in the correct order? To answer this, we explore the various marking they used.
