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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 29 November 2011
This paper is intended to examine in detail certain problems concerning the binding of the Victor Codex (MS. Bonifatianus I)in the Landesbibliothek at Fulda (pl. xxxv). It is hoped to show that the metal mounts of the binding are of Northumbrian manufacture; that, in all probability, the leather binding was executed at the same time and in the same area, and that the binding is of late-seventh or eighth-century date.
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page 208 note 1 I owe this information to Dr. F. Pieper of the Landesbibliothek in Fulda.
page 208 note 2 B. van Regemorter, op. cit. (1949), 49, states that the loops indicate that the book belonged to a chained library, saying that this would convince her that the book was bound when it came into the possession of St. Boniface. I must disagree with this assertion as there was normally only one loop, usually of iron, on the top edge of a chained book (for description of normal chaining in medieval libraries see Myres, J. N. L. in Wormald, F. and Wright, C. E., The English Library (London, 1958), p. 236Google Scholar). Secondly, there is no evidence that Anglo-Saxon libraries were chained (in fact there is no evidence that they were chained before the twelfth century); thirdly, the other two Boniface codices are not chained and, fourthly, there is no reason why the loops should not be secondary.
page 210 note 1 Reginaldi monachi dunelmensis libellus de admirandis beati cuthberti virtutibus quoe novellis patratae sunt temporibus (Surtees Society, vol. 1), cap. xci, p. 198.
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page 212 note 9 Ibid. 50 f.
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page 215 note 2 Although we know that they existed, they are portrayed in manuscripts, e.g. Echternach Gospels, fol. 18b; Zimmermann, pl. 255.
page 215 note 3 Walters Art Gallery, The History of Bookbinding, 525–1950 A.D. (Baltimore 1957)Google Scholar, pls. xxxii and xxxiii.
page 215 note 4 I must thank Dr. David Wright for this identification.
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page 216 note 4 Op. cit., p. vi.
page 216 note 5 Loc. cit.
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