[EKStationers] ["EXLIBRIS-L"] Folger launches Bindings Image Database

[Wendy Gale]

My apologies -- the forward stripped out the html for the direct link,
which is <http://luna.folger.edu/luna/servlet/BINDINGS~1~1>

             -Sabine

On Mon, Jun 11, 2012 at 2:28 PM, Wendy Gale <woodwindy at gmail.com> wrote:
> Bonjour mes amis!
>
> I thought people might be interested in the announcement below.
>
>         -Sabine
>
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> The Folger Shakespeare Library is pleased to announce public access to
> a new database of digital images: the Folger Bindings Image
> Collection, now accessible as an additional resource at
> http://luna.folger.edu, or via direct link.
>
> About this database:
>
> The Folger Bindings Image Collection provides access to high
> resolution images and descriptions of bindings from the rare book and
> manuscript collections of the Folger Shakespeare Library. Bindings are
> chosen from the collection for photography and description not only
> because of decorative tooling but also for their physical features as
> functional objects and cultural artifacts. Recording information about
> binding structure and decoration can reveal items where the same or
> similar tools may have been used at different times by different
> binders or binding workshops. Uncovering such similarities can also
> help link multiple bindings to individual owners, collectors, binders,
> or workshops --even in cases where a binder may be as yet unidentified
> --as well as to specific geographical regions or time periods.
>
>
> Contents of the database:
>
> Included among the over 3,000 images depicting over 1,000 bindings are
> descriptions and depictions of:
>
> ·         bindings in our collection of incunabula, including for
> instance this 15th century German half-leather and wood board binding
> on a 1481 Nuremberg edition of Platina's Vitae pontificum;
>
> ·         bindings by specific people or workshops, for instance by
> the 18th century English bookbinder Roger Payne; and a
> newly-identified group of bindings referred to here as by the "Tulip
> Spine Binder, ca. 1670";
>
> ·         fore-edges that are gauffered or painted;
>
> ·         identified and unidentified armorial bindings.
>
>
> Most of the records in this database represent new bindings research
> and photography created by Folger Rare Bindings Specialist and former
> Head of Conservation J. Franklin Mowery, with the assistance of
> Bindings Database Intern Rachel Bartgis. Some of the contents of the
> database were imported from past projects, including: a 1992
> exhibition catalog Fine and Historic Bookbindings from the Folger
> Shakespeare Library, by Frederick A. Bearman, Nati H. Krivatsy, J.
> Franklin Mowery, photographs by Julie Ainsworth; a
> previously-unpublished guide to The Bindings of Edward Gwynn in the
> Folger Shakespeare Library, by J. Franklin Mowery; and
> previously-unpublished conservation documentation and photography of
> Shakespeare First Folio bindings in the Folger Library, by J. Franklin
> Mowery.
>
>
> Continuing work:
>
>
> Work on the Folger Bindings Collection continues, focused on: revision
> of existing entries; upgrading existing image files; addition of
> information and images for newly-researched bindings; continued
> addition of terms from the RBMS controlled vocabulary, Binding Terms:
> A Thesaurus for Use in Rare Book and Special Collections Cataloging,
> updating vocabulary lists, a bibliography, and additional links to
> other resources.
>
>
> Corrections, additions, and questions would be welcome.
>
>
>
> Please email: fmowery at folger.edu or bindingshelp at folger.edu.
>
>
>
> Stephen Enniss
>
> Eric Weinmann Librarian
>
> Folger Shakespeare Library
>
> 201 East Capitol Street, SE
>
> Washington, DC  20003
>
> 202-675-0327
>
> 202-675-0313 (fax)