There are many recipes and application techniques for the material, but when successfully applied it allows light to reflect off the page (hence its symbolic value for reading and understanding).
Illumination: The use or presence of gold on a manuscript page. It is usually visually subordinated to the main text of a page (i.e., in the margin or between the lines), and may have been part of the planned design of the page or have been added later. Gloss: A comment or definition written in a book. The term is also used in bookbinding to refer to a large paper size, which can cause some confusion. In pre-modern practice folios are often only numbered on one side modern page numbering would thus result in twice as many pages as folios in the same book.
When detached from a book, a folio is often called a leaf. It is not uncommon to find a detached leaf from a medieval manuscript with traces of its paired leaf (the other half of its bifolio) still visible along the fold.įolio: A piece of paper or vellum a single page in a book. Otto Ege's biblioclasty, for example, was intimately tied to his advocacy of popular art education.īifolio: A piece of paper or vellum folded once, creating two folios or leaves. While usually reviled (especially within the orbit of old or rare books), the action can be undertaken for more complex and altruistic reasons than censorship, theft, financial gain, or wanton destruction.
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