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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Ex Libris, post: 11323793, member: 14916&quot;]As several of you know one of my interests is the old book as a historical object. Sometimes I can completely nerd out as a book collector. This is a nice example.</p><p><img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie49" alt=":happy:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>Several years ago I spotted a strange parchment fragment in one of my books.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]541123[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]541124[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>It is clearly a fragment of a gothic manuscript, written on vellum, but this fragment has some rectangular holes and something that looks like red ink. In this book (Antwerp 1668) the fragment was used to reinforce the back.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>I started to research this fragment and I found out this was a rather newly discovered particular kind of fragment: a so called Frisket Sheet. This old manuscript was used to print red letters for mostly liturgical books. The square holes in the reveal the red letters.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]541126[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://www.leidenspecialcollectionsblog.nl/articles/a-frisket-sheet-for-printing-in-red" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.leidenspecialcollectionsblog.nl/articles/a-frisket-sheet-for-printing-in-red" rel="nofollow">Description University of Leiden</a></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>I discovered an English scholar called Elisabeth Savage made <a href="https://bibsite.org/media/collectiveaccess/images/1/25000_ca_object_representations_media_100_original.pdf" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://bibsite.org/media/collectiveaccess/images/1/25000_ca_object_representations_media_100_original.pdf" rel="nofollow">a census with a lot of frisket sheets of important libraries</a>. In those days the first fragments came for sale for ridiculous prices.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]541127[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>In the last years I discovered 3 books with frisket sheets for my collection. I found out they are not that scarce as assumed at first. Nobody in the book market recognized them <img src="styles/default/xenforo/smilies/smile.png" class="mceSmilie" alt=":)" unselectable="on" />.</p><p><br /></p><p>Other friskets sheet in my collection.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]541130[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]541128[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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