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EARLIEST HISTORY OF BOOKMARKS
by Asim Maner
IFOB publication No. 1
February 2016, 12 pages (A4), 10 images
PDF-file 50.6 MB - downloadable after payment
Abstract
The paper describes the history of Ancient and Medieval bookmarks from the 1st century AD till the 15th century and presents the latest research about bookmarks.
The research for this paper revealed new facts about the existence of much earlier bookmarks as the ones described in the current bookmark literature. As a consequence, the earliest currently known bookmark has to be backdated by several hundred years to the 6th century AD. It is an ornamented leather bookmark lined with vellum on the back and was attached to the cover of a Coptic codex found in Egypt in 1924-25. There are indications that bookmarks have accompanied codices since their first emergence in the 1st century AD. Several bookmarks of Coptic codices from 1st to 11th century and bookmarks of Carolingian codices dating from 8th to the 12th century are described in detail and with pictures. In the light of these results, the bookmark history has been divided into new periods.
by Asim Maner
IFOB publication No. 1
February 2016, 12 pages (A4), 10 images
PDF-file 50.6 MB - downloadable after payment
Abstract
The paper describes the history of Ancient and Medieval bookmarks from the 1st century AD till the 15th century and presents the latest research about bookmarks.
The research for this paper revealed new facts about the existence of much earlier bookmarks as the ones described in the current bookmark literature. As a consequence, the earliest currently known bookmark has to be backdated by several hundred years to the 6th century AD. It is an ornamented leather bookmark lined with vellum on the back and was attached to the cover of a Coptic codex found in Egypt in 1924-25. There are indications that bookmarks have accompanied codices since their first emergence in the 1st century AD. Several bookmarks of Coptic codices from 1st to 11th century and bookmarks of Carolingian codices dating from 8th to the 12th century are described in detail and with pictures. In the light of these results, the bookmark history has been divided into new periods.
