The modern abbreviation is usually 'bookmark'. One of the first references to these is found in Mary Russell Mitford's Recollections of a Literary Life (1852): "I had no marker and the richly bound volume closed as if instinctively." Note the abbreviation of 'bookmarker' to 'marker'. The first detached, and therefore collectible, bookmarkers began to appear in the 1850s. Many are made of cardboard or heavy paper, but they are also constructed of paper, ribbon, fabric, felt, steel, wire, tin, beads, wood, plastic, vinyl, silver, gold, and other precious metals, some decorated with gemstones. Modern bookmarks are available in a huge variety of materials in a multitude of designs and styles. Bookmarks were used throughout the medieval period, consisting usually of a small parchment strip attached to the edge of folio (or a piece of cord attached to headband). Further earliest bookmarks and remnants of them have been found in Coptic codices dating from the 1st to the 11th century and in Carolingian codices from the 8th to the 12th century. It was found near Sakkara, Egypt, under the ruins of the monastery Apa Jeremiah. The earliest existing bookmark dates from the 6th century AD and it is made of ornamented leather lined with vellum on the back and was attached with a leather strap to the cover of a Coptic codex (Codex A, MS 813 Chester Beatty Library, Dublin). Furthermore, other bookmarks incorporate a page-flap that enables them to be clipped on a page.Īccording to new results of the research done on the history of bookmarks, there are indications that bookmarks have accompanied codices since their first emergence in the 1st century AD.
Some books may have one or more bookmarks made of woven ribbon sewn into the binding. Alternate materials for bookmarks are paper, metals like silver and brass, silk, wood, cord (sewing), and plastic. A metal bookmark with a fabric tassel and decorative beadsĪ bookmark is a thin marking tool, commonly made of card, leather, or fabric, used to keep track of a reader's progress in a book and allow the reader to easily return to where the previous reading session ended.
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