Resumen de On the Edge: Endbands in the Bookbinding Traditions of the Eastern Mediterranean

Diane E. Bockrath (res.)

• In the preface to the original 1986 edition of Headbands: How to Work Them—long considered by many to be the first stop on the bookshelf when faced with an endband conundrum—Jane Greenfield and Jenny Hille assert that, “the number of variants [of endbands] is so great that it would be impossible to identify and describe them all.” Georgios Boudalis—at least as it concerns the Eastern Mediterranean manuscript world—has given Greenfield and Hille a run for their money, and then some. From their modest twelve, Boudalis takes us to a bountiful fifty, all documented, described, and diagrammed in meticulous detail.