Virtually disbinding codices : visualisation of the construction of codex textblocks

Abstract

This paper offers an overview of the current state of development of VisColl, a project aimed at collecting information on the physical makeup of the gathering structure of books in codex format, and presenting it visually to the end user. It is a novel way of presenting manuscripts on computer screens, one that is substantially different from the customary page-turning view, and one that focuses on the physicality of the book as opposed to its state as a text-bearing object