manuscript binding
A method used occasionally when a manuscript (or
typescript) made up of single leaves is to be
bound in sections. The leaves are pasted in pairs
in such a manner that if there are 16 leaves, for
example, the binding edge of leaf 1 (recto side
down) would be pasted to the binding edge of leaf
16 (recto side up), leaf 2 to 15, and so on, the 8
double leaves then being folded to make a section.
At best it is an awkward method and is probably
not as effective as a GUARD (2) . (355 )
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