![]() ![]() He was a distinguished civil lawyer who became Chancellor and Vicar-General to the Archbishop of Canterbury, Matthew Parker. The label shown above informs us that this book was given to Queens’ Library on 6 January 1562 by Thomas Yale. Cyprian’s Works with inscription: Thomas Yale Britanus Legum Doctor for Cancellarius Archiepiscopi Cantuariensis quondam Socius: huius Collegij hunc libru dedit huic Bibliothecae. In each case the horn is held in place by a brass frame that encloses a parchment slip on which is inscribed details of how the book came to be in Queens’ Library: There are in Queens’ Old Library three volumes that retain horn windows, all of them formerly owned by the same person. In bookbinding, a horn window (also called fenestra) denotes a rectangular piece of transparent horn that is fixed to the front board of a book as protection for a paper or vellum label (see above). A famous extant example is the horn window at Barley Hall, York. To do this, cow horns were soaked in water to soften them, heated and then cut and rolled into strips. Less costly than glass, cow horn had been widely used in the middle ages to make actual windows. One lesser known component in the production of early printed books was cow horn, used to make ‘horn windows’. How else might animals have been used to make books? Skin was, however, not the only animal product to have been used in books. calfskin) pages or leaves and that both manuscript volumes and early printed books had bindings made of leather, principally from calf, sheep, goat and pig. It is widely known that Medieval manuscripts were copied on vellum (i.e. Synchronizing also downloads any purchases of NOOK content you may have made on the Web at BN.com.16th century calf binding of Ptolemy’s Geographiae universalis, vetus et nova įrom their invention in late antiquity until the twentieth century animal skin was essential to the production of bound books. Synchronizing your NOOK downloads any books and periodicals that you have purchased from the NOOK Shop while using another device, such as another NOOK, a smartphone, or a tablet, registered to the same account. ![]() The Sync button is a button with two curved arrows forming a circle. The sort menu is a pull-down menu that lets you sort the content shown on the screen according to rules such as Most Recent, Title (an alphabetical listing of titles), or Author (an alphabetical listing of authors' last names). Everything Else - shows any content in your account that is not supported on this device.Archived - shows any books or periodicals you have archived (this menu choice appears only if you have once archived any books or periodicals).My Files - shows any files, such as EPUB or PDF files, that you have transferred from your personal computer to your NOOK.Shelves - shows any books, magazines, and newspapers that you have organized on shelves.LendMe - shows only books eligible for lending and books that you have borrowed (this menu choice appears only if you have lendable books or if you have borrowed books).Newsstand - shows only magazines and newspapers (this menu choice appears only if you have purchased magazines or newspapers).The category menu (sometimes called the filter menu) is a pull-down menu in the upper left corner of the Library and lets you select the Library contents you want to display. To help you quickly find what you're looking for, the Library on your NOOK features a couple of dropdown menus that let you select which contents to display and how to display them. For details on how to archive and unarchive content via BN.com, click here. Save memory and space in your Library by Archiving unused content. To see your NOOK Library on BN.com, sign in to: My Digital Library. You can access your NOOK Library at any time by signing in on BN.com, your NOOK App, or on your NOOK device. ![]() Your Library lists all of your previous purchases and free samples, and has features for you to manage your content quickly and easily. ![]()
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