![]() ![]() Meanwhile around the same time China and Japan still are using accordion binding. British Museum / CC BY-NC-SA 4.0īy the time of the 700s CE, what we know as “bookbinding” started to develop in monasteries in Europe with the development of illuminated texts. One of the best recorded of the “Book of the Dead”. (If you’re ever at the Brooklyn Museum, they have the Papyrus of Sobekmose on display it’s very well intact and you can see where it had been folded!) A “panel” from the Papyrus of Ani, a Theban Scribe. In ancient Egypt, papyri were often folded in a zig-zag fashion as well as rolled– particularly in their funerary texts. ![]() Accordion Books, one could argue, is the earliest form of bookbinding. ![]()
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