Bartoli da Saxoferrato Prima super Infortiato
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The pages that serve to form the inner boards of this work are actually composed of printer’s waste : printed sheets that could not be used by the printer or binder in a final copy. Boards of this nature were created by gluing several sheets of paper together, offering a lighter form of cover than the boards of thick wood which were generally used in this era. Here we see a sheet that has come straight from the printer’s press; it has not been folded or cut into a gathering, allowing us to infer it is printer’s waste and not something salvaged from a previously bound book. This sheet was probably from a “trial run” of the printer’s; the first printings from an imposition would be verified in order to see that no typographical or other errors were to be found in the setting of frame of type. Anything that did not pass would be recycled.
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Les pages qui servent à composer les plats de cet ouvrage sont en fait des retailles de documents imprimés. On collait ensemble plusieurs feuilles afin de créer un plat solide mais plus léger que les ais de bois, géné́ralement utilisées à la même époque. Ici, on peut voir une feuille imprimée tout droit sortie de la presse puisqu’elle n"a pas encore été pliée ou coupée pour former le cahier. Il s’agit probablement de pages d’essai. Souvent les premières pages imprimées permettaient de vérifier qu’il n’y avait pas de coquilles ou de problèmes avec la mise en page.
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