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Rotating bookmarks were a special kind of Bookmark used in medieval Europe. They were attached to a string, along which a marker could be slid up and down to mark a precise level on the page. Attached to the marker was a rotating disk that could indicate the column (usually numbered one to four, indicating the two columns on the left-hand page, and the two columns on the right-hand page).

About 30 such rotating bookmarks have been recorded in libraries on the continent, and another half a dozen in England.


REFERENCES

  • J. Destrez, ''L’outillage des copistes du XIIIe et du XIVe siècles'', in ''Aus der Geisteswelt des Mittelalters'', Martin Grabmann festschrift, 1935, 19–34

  • R. Emms, ''Medieval Rotating Column-Indicators'', Transactions of the Cambridge Bibliographical Society, XII, 2001, 179–l-84).



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