Bag book
Bag book or belt book (also book in a bag , book bag , booksbüdel ; Latin liber caudatus ) describes a form of bound books with mostly religious content (such as breviaries , prayer or song books and almanacs ) or as (for example medical ) Vademecum . The bag shape comes about by placing a second cover ( book bag ) over the leather cover , which protrudes over the undercut. The mostly small-format book (in octave, duodec or dedez format ) can be carried on it like a bag and also attached to the belt.
Material and use
Bag books were initially only created in monasteries. The first bookbinding workshops existed there before secular bookbinders started doing business.
The parchment or paper sheets were attached to a book block with a needle and thread and were given wooden book covers. The covers were covered with leather, the edges were glued around the wooden cover and only left one and a half times longer than the undercut (also called “tail”, opposite: “head”) of the book. The protruding leather at the end was possibly cut into narrow strips and braided into an artistic knot. The thickening was partially given a round brass ring so that the pouch book could be hung on the belt. Sometimes straps or one or two metal clasps (usually bronze or brass) kept the book locked.
Contemporary illustrations show the pouch book being carried in the hand or on a belt; clerics in particular were often portrayed in this way, but also many a doctor who had studied at a university ( buoch-arzet ).
In order to be able to put bag books on the bookshelf better, these "leather rags with the knot" were later often cut off and have therefore seldom been preserved for posterity.
Received stocks
In the 16th century, the use of bag books ended. A small number (23 pieces) of original pouch books are still preserved today in the manuscript departments of various European libraries. There is a well-preserved prayer book (1454–1484) in the Abbey Library in Kremsmünster (CC391) in Austria; Other examples in the German-speaking area are the prayer book of Margarethe von Münsterberg , Princess of Anhalt, from around 1500, in the Anhalt State Library in Dessau , the prayer book of Katharina Roeder von Rodeck, nun in Frauenalb , from 1540 in the Badische Landesbibliothek in Karlsruhe , the bag book from Tegernsee (Clm 19309) from the 2nd half of the 15th century and the Meißner Rechtsbuch (Cgm 8950) from the 14th century in the Bavarian State Library in Munich.
Bag book in heraldry
The bag book appears in heraldry as a common figure ; B. in the coat of arms (as in the logo today) of the Schottenstift in Vienna, which is also cited in the coat of arms of the Breitenlee district in the 22nd district of Vienna ( Donaustadt ).
See also
- Cover binding (medieval): Book binding with extended cover material .
literature
- Lisl Alker, Hugo Alker: The bag book in the fine arts. A descriptive directory . (= Small print of the Gutenberg Society; No. 78). Gutenberg Society, Mainz 1966
- Ursula Bruckner: Taschenbuch-Originals , in: Studien zum Buch- und Librarywesen 9/1995, page 5–23
- Renate Klausner: A bag book from Isny . In: Siegfried Joost (Ed.): Bibliotheca docet. Ceremony for Carl Wehmer . Erasmus bookstore publisher, Amsterdam 1963, pp. 139–145
- Klaus Müller: The bag book. From the medieval book of hours to the extraordinary guest book . Self-published, Landau-Nussdorf (6th edition 1998) 2004, ISBN 3-933423-46-5
- Heinrich Schreiber: book bag , in: Reallexikon zur Deutschen Kunstgeschichte , Vol. 2, 1947, Sp. 1343-1346
- Margit J. Smith, Jim Bloxam: The medieval girdle book project . (PDF; 1.1 MB). In: The International Journal of the Book. Volume 3, No. 4, 2005/06.
- Margit J. Smith: The medieval girdle book. Oak Knoll Press, New Castle, Delaware 2017, ISBN 978-1-58456-368-6 .
- Bettina Wagner in: AußenAnsichten: Book covers from 1000 years from the holdings of the Bavarian State Library in Munich . Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden 2006, No. 16 and 17, ISBN 3-447-05434-4 .
Web links
- Publications on bag books in the Opac of the Regesta Imperii
- Beincke Library , Yale University : Three bag books
- Prayer book - Karlsruhe 3356, bag book in the digital collections of the Badische Landesbibliothek
- Illustrations of bag books https://www.buchbindeatelier.de/html/paketbuch.htm
Individual evidence
- ↑ Gundolf Keil : belt book (bag book). In: Werner E. Gerabek , Bernhard D. Haage, Gundolf Keil, Wolfgang Wegner (eds.): Enzyklopädie Medizingeschichte. De Gruyter, Berlin / New York 2005, ISBN 3-11-015714-4 , p. 516.
- ↑ Gundolf Keil: belt book (bag book). 2005, p. 516.
- ↑ Gundolf Keil: belt book (bag book). 2005, p. 516.