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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Medieval Guy, post: 9438590, member: 81326&quot;]Hi...new to the board, and brought here with a question which you may have already answered!&nbsp; I was trained as a medieval historian, and while I didn&#039;t end up in academia I remain very interested, especially in my dissertation topic of early Norman history.&nbsp; Over the past several years, I have acquired several 17th-century books pertaining to that subject.&nbsp; My most recent acquisition is <i>John of Marmoutier&#039;s Historiae Gauffredi Ducis Normannorum &amp; Comitis Andegavorum, Turonorum, &amp; Caenomannorum Libri duo, hactenus non editi</i> from 1610.&nbsp; When it arrived, I was surprised and perplexed that the boards are covered by paper with writing on it, which seems unrelated to the content of the book except for the title and author written on the spine.</p><p><img src="http://helmerichs.us/Gauf1.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /> </p><p><img src="http://helmerichs.us/Gauf3.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /> </p><p>It&#039;s hard to tell from the picture3, but there are raised bands on the spine, as if the paper were layered on top of a leather binding.&nbsp; You can see a seam on the front cover; the writing on the paper on either side of the seam is in opposite orientations.</p><p><br /></p><p>My initial thought was that the paper was added later for some reason, but now I wonder if it was part of the original binding?&nbsp; I would appreciate the thoughts of anybody who knows more about this sort of thing than I do (which would probably be anybody here!).[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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