![]() Since the signatures formed by this “pre-stitching” do not have a centre fold, stitching was not always done after half of the sheets in a signature, but was often offset by one or two sheets. Presumably, a simple overlock stitch was used for this, in which the thread is led diagonally across the spine from one stitching hole to the next. In order to form signatures from these individual sheets, before sewing in the fold area, they were stitched crosswise with block stitching (Fig. The signatures mainly consist of eight individual sheets. Album 1 contains 95 sheets, and Album 2 97 sheets. The book blocks are made of wove paper, now brownish in colour, the individual sheets of which are signatures sewn on five raised cords. 2: Album 1, back cover (arrangement and pasting sequence of the pieces of marbled paper used to cover the board). 1: Album 1, front cover (arrangement and pasting sequence of the pieces of marbled paper used to cover the board).įig. The edges of the boards and the corners are bumped, the leather scuffed, and parts of the surface of the marbled paper have suffered abrasion damage during pre-museum use presumably by pulling or pushing the albums on a shelf or across tables.įig. ![]() The bindings display typical signs of use. The only ornamentation on the otherwise plain album bindings are blind embossed lines running parallel to the spines, which is a characterstic embellishment used in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Such piecing together of paper coverings is also known from other large-format volumes, for example, from items in the Nicolai Collection of the Württemberg State Library in Stuttgart, a collection of eighteenth century bindings. It is possible that here remnants supplemented complete sheets of paper. Įach board is covered in a blue and red marbled paper (Figs. The covers are made of cardboard, which is approximately 5 mm thick, and the corners of the boards and the tight back, rounded spine are covered in light brown sheep leather with dark marbeling. The two half leather bound albums in landscape format are almost identical ( Album 1, cover and Album 2, cover ). An art technological examination of the albums provides information about the use and history of the two albums.
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