The Stationer or Bookseller--Part 1

The stationer was the man or woman who owned the shop where you ordered a book. The stationer supplied the vellum and the gold leaf and coordinated the efforts of the artisans involved in making an illuminated manuscript.

With the order placed, the stationer trimmed the vellum into rectangles of equal size and arranged them by folding four sheets of vellum and nests one inside the other to form a gathering. The stationer then contracted out jobs to scribes and illuminators.

[The stationer will play another role later in the production of a medieval manuscript]

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