Description: Probably English, early 16th century. Brown leather over wooden boards, sewn on raised supports. Covers decorated in blind with multiple fillet frames; the central panel is divided by diagonal fillets into lozenge-shaped compartments, filled with repeated small floral/rosette and animal stamps. Evidence of two former fore-edge clasps or fastenings; the fittings are now lost.

Source: Aristoteles, Problemata (Text beginning: Propter quid superabundantiae) Tr: Bartholomaeus de Messana. Comm: Petrus de Abano, [Venice] Johannes Herbort, de Seligenstadt 25 Feb. 1482

Institution: Oxford, Pembroke College Shelfmark: 7.d.4

Century: 16th

Type: Binding

See: https://data.cerl.org/mei/02178750

Last Edited: 2026/09/15 12:09:48