Hand-Press Book Leaf Laboratory Leaf-Analysis "Partners" for Fall 2007
Remember the way folio book pages relate to each other as "bifolia," pairs of pages folded in half at the binding's "gutter." This means that, in order to make full sense of your leaf's "recto" side (with the folio number), you need to talk to and read the data posted by your colleague who is working with your leaf's "verso" partner, which used to lay open on the left side of the open book, across from your page. In almost all cases, your leaf's verso side makes your research relevant to your colleague who is working with the next leaf's recto side, so most of you have two close partners in research, as well as the rest of the class for help in imagining the whole book. In addition, the leaves used to be sewn together in gatherings whose thickness can be calculated from the signatures (the lower, double-alphabet numbers), so some of your leaves also are "gathering sibs" of other close partners' leaves.
[ ] = missing leaf < > = leaf out of order
[238v] 239r Toni
239v 240r Toni and Cassie
240v 241r Cassie and Sam
241v 242r Sam and Colleen
242v 243r Colleen and Susan
<243v 244r> Susan
<244v> [245r]
[245v 246r]
[246v 247r]
[247v] 248r Sarah
248v 249r Sarah and Simone
249v 250r Simone and Kelly
250v 251r Kelly and Meredith
251v 252r Meredith and Anna
252v 253r Anna and Michelle
253v [254r] Michelle
[254v 255r]
[255v] 256r
256v 257r
257v 258r
258v [259r]