Re: VMs: text analysis, art of memory, book binding

[Pamela Richards <spirlhelix@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi, Eric

I have not tried this project, but I have a cousin who
binds books by hand as an avocation.

Here's a site with a kit you can purchase to make a
"medieval open-backed book" for a reasonable price:

http://www.plickityplunk.com/bookofages.html

I realize you will not be using materials entirely
consistent with the historical period, but such a kit
should give you a thorough idea of what is required to
reasonably approximate the binding of the VMs.

Hope this helps!

Warmly,

Pam


--- Eric <mynumberis2000@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Thanks - I followed some of the earlier threads
> through the archives on that topic, but what I was
> actually asking was suggestions on how to bind the
> one
> I am making (not on having one made).
> 
> I've got the printouts and have pieced together the
> 9X12 bifolios and sewn them into quires, but I need
> to
> bind the quires into a book and am a bit lost.
> 
> Any suggestions are appreciated!
> 
> Thanks,
> Eric
> 
> 
> 
> --- jean-yves artero <jyartero@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> > Eric,
> >  
> > About book binding: You surely know that the
> > publication of VMS is an old idea in this list.
> >  
> > I still think it s a good one. You are right, it
> > would mean something to me, at least, to have this
> > manuscript "at hand", and not only on a ghostly
> > screen ( please our lord Bill Gates, forgive this
> ).
> >  
> > As already argued previously by someone else, this
> > would too boost the interest for the VMS - and to
> > some extent increase the opportunities of letting
> > the riddle solved.
> >  
> >  At the moment, there are some books recently
> > published (2004) or to be published (2005) on the
> > topic, perhaps next year could be the best moment
> to
> > launch the project.
> >  
> > Why not retry a JV between Beinecke, a publisher,
> > and possibly those interested as suscribers?
> >  
> > Regards,
> >  
> > Jean
> >  
> > P.S. Your point about recognising or not an
> > alchemical engraving is interesting too; in
> > principle you can say when you are an expert in
> > alchemy what is and what is not alchemical;
> > generally speaking I would say that VMS pictures
> > look like astrological, herbal, etc pages but not
> > alchemical.
> > 
> > Eric <mynumberis2000@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > Some misc. thoughts.
> > 
> > Text Analysis:
> > I've been following the recent recurring string
> etc
> > discussions. Interesting, but my two cents - after
> > having done months of text analysis of various
> sorts
> > of correlations and what not - is to work on a
> known
> > language first. Well, first, have an idea of what
> > you
> > are looking to discover (i.e. "what are the
> > recurring
> > strings") and then go after a text in your native
> > tongue. Then a few other texts of different types
> > (poetry, children's book, scientific text,
> fictional
> > novel). Then pick a few common languages (English
> > and
> > Latin at least, French, German, Italian, and keep
> > going) and do the same. THEN, try it on the VMS
> and
> > see what, if anything, is statistically
> signficant.
> > It's a much more boring way to go, but saves you
> > from
> > doing a ton of work on the VMS drawing conclusions
> > that look promising, just to find out that it's a
> > common pattern in normal languages.
> > 
> > Art of Memory:
> > Got the Yates book and almost done reading it.
> Very
> > interesting and highly recommended for any who
> > haven't
> > read it. I doubt it will break open the VMS for me
> > :)
> > since many others have tread this path, but it
> does
> > provide a much greater understanding of medieval
> and
> > Renaissance thought around the time the VMS was
> > probably written. A depressing thought from
> reading
> > it
> > (and in general exploring alchemy, occult,
> > religious,
> > etc etc of these eras) is the huge amount of
> > overlap,
> > borrowing and parallels between disciplines and
> > schools of thought - hard to every pick out a
> single
> > idea or image and say that it is definitely...
> > something (i.e. "this is definitely an alchemic
> > image
> > used only between 1500 and 1550 in Venice"). An
> > uplifting thought, though, was noticing how much
> > authors blantantly copied one another - often word
> > for
> > word and diagram for diagram. Which leads to some
> > hope
> > with the VMS - the obvious "word for word"
> parallel
> > is
> > out, but retains the hope that we might find a
> > single
> > diagram (or clear case of assembled diagrams) that
> > we
> > can link directly to another source and possibly
> > find
> > a key that deciphers "word for word" the VMS in
> that
> > section and so unlocks the rest.
> > 
> > Book Binding:
> > Also building a copy of the VMS. HIGHLY
> recommended.
> > 
> > Using an Epson ink jet printer and glossy (only
> kind
> > I
> > could easily find) photo paper. It's going to set
> me
> > back about $150. Printing out each recto and verso
> > at
> > real size (closest to 9 inches tall i can get) and
> > assembling the bifolios, then the bifolios into
> > quires. Really gets you to look at each page and
> see
> > the manuscript as a whole (and how much of it is
> > devoted to the herbal). And also understand just
> how
> > small things are - viewing them on zoom on the
> > screen
> > all the time tends to distort things. I know
> others
> > have done this exercise with similar advice - I'm
> > just
> > chiming in to encourage anyone who hasn't to do
> so.
> > It's not a quick project :) but enjoyable (and it
> > will
> > make a very cool coffee table book :). BTW, I have
> > been successful up to making the quires, but does
> > anyone have advice on how to bind the quires into
> a
> > full book?
> > 
> > 
> > Thanks,
> > Eric
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
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