It is a pleasure to acknowledge the financial assistance of the Trust in funding the examination of the disbound manuscript. |
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Photographic prints from a disbound sample book showing samples of decorative and ornamental fixtures made from onyx. |
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The manuscript was disbound and each bi-folio leaf carefully 'relaxed' by a conservator, so that it would lie flat for the photographer. |
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Each issue is about 28 x 40 cm and 16 pp, disbound but in fairly good condition with a minimum of browning, and each is in a large flat plastic bag, without folds. |
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Once conceived, grangerizing came to include books that were disbound and rebound with added illustrations, letters, autographs or other additions. |
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These strips were once spines, sliced from volumes disbound for scanning as part of Google's enormous digitization project. |
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After all, not every day is one of the greatest illuminated manuscripts produced in 13th-century France disbound for research and study. |
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To completely eliminate any curvature close to the spine the manuscript was disbound so that it could be photographed flat. |
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Specially manufactured glass which is both 'optically flat' and 'optically white' was used to hold the disbound folios flat during photography. |
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The practice of choral-manuscript illumination flourished in Europe from the fourteenth to the sixteenth century, then floundered when Italian monasteries were secularized under Napoleon and choir books were disbound. |
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