Preferred label

Gutter fold                

Alternative label

Scope note

The fold joining the two panels of a bifolium; opposite the fore-edge. The term derives from printing: “gutter” refers to the white space between two blocks of text on a double-page spread.        

Parent concept

Fold        

uh-linked-data/concept/146        

Related concept 

Letterlocking fold sequence        

uh-linked-data/concept/294        

The Arts & Architecture ThesaurusⓇ Online, The Getty Research Institute. Concept uri

Not in AAT        

The Language of Bindings Thesaurus (LoB) Concept uri

Not in LoB

Scope note source reference

Source

Jana Dambrogio, Daniel Starza Smith, and the Unlocking History Research Group. Letterlocking, The Hidden History of the Letter. Cambridge and London: MIT Press, 2025.

Unlocking History Concept uri

uh-linked-data/concept/170