As part of my pursuit to learn the historical strucutres of bookbinding, I've turned to J.A. Szirmai's book The Archaeology of Medieval Bookbinding. It has been described to me as being a dense read, but moving at the snail's pace that I am, it is not bad at all. As I read through each chapter I will make a model of each structure addressed. This allows me to really understand the readings with physical examples. The first structure in the book is the Nag Hamadi codex. A group of thirteen were discovered in a jar near the Egyptian village of…