Bookmarkers

[bunnyjadwiga]

(Marietta, this is the only reference to pre-1700 bookmarkers in the book; no footnotes.)

Coysh, Arthur W. Collecting Bookmarkers (New York: Drake Publishers Inc, 1974), p. 7:

Bookmarkers appear to have been used in Tudor times. In 1584 Queen Elizabeth was presented with a fringed silk bookmarker by Christopher Barker who had acquired a patent as Queen's Printer in 1577 which came him the sole right to print the Bible, the Book of Common Prayer, the Statutes of the Realm and all proclamations. He was also a draper; hence the silk for the bookmarker. The British and Foreign Bible Society owns a bookmarker with plaited silk cords, silver knots and silk tassels which appears to have been made for use in a bible of 1632.

Comments

hmm

[bytchearse.livejournal.com]

Any difference made between a separate marker (I would assume the one presented to Good Queen Bess was one such) and those bound into/attached to books?

[strawberrykaren.livejournal.com]

He sperd the bok whan he had red þis and leyd at þe same reson a merk be whech he myth rydily turne þertoo, for &is same texte put in his hert a lite of swech a grace þat alle þe derk errouris whech he had hold wer passed a-wey fro him. Tho toke he þe book on-to his felaw Alipius, and with his fynger or sum othir tokne schewid him þe clause be-for red.

from John Capgrave's Lives of St Augustine and St Gilbert of Sempringham and a Sermon, also available on Google Books and the Internet Archive)

[helwen.livejournal.com]

Nice! Thanks for posting this. And my thanks go Strawberrykaren too. Hard thing to find references to...

[florentinescot.livejournal.com]

Oh, how cool is that!