SMC228H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Vellum, Johannes Gutenberg, Oral Tradition
10 Mar 2017
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Paper has acid in it, acid will transfer to book, damages book. B/c most fragile part of book is the hinge. Do not open it more than 120 degrees. When flipping pages, don"t handle the corners. How material culture has changed, why material culture changes. Ancestor script for everything in western culture. Includes greek, latin, arabic, hebrew, and engish. Travels to all the ports, gets transferred b/c of trade. Codex what we refer to as a (cid:498)book(cid:499) today. Heating up wax of tablets to make the wax smooth again. Thick material made from the papyrus plant. Papyrus plant found in egypt along the nile river. Take centre of papyrus plant, peel it into strips. Lay the strips, pound together, emits glue which holds it together. Paper comes from papyrus, but papyrus is not technically paper. Resource was naturally found (abundance of it) )nk flaked away over time (cid:523)didn"t retain ink as well as other materials)
