Late 15th- or early 16th-century binding of blind-tooled brown leather over wooden boards. Upper cover decorated with a double-fillet frame, an outer border of repeated lozenge-shaped foliate stamps with small rosettes, and a densely tooled central field of scrolling foliate ornament. Lower cover decorated with a double-fillet frame and diagonal fillets forming lozenge compartments, filled with circular rosette, floral, foliate and geometric stamps; outer border composed of repeated square/lozenge-shaped tools. Evidence of two former fore-edge clasp fastenings and lost metal furniture survives on the boards. Spine with raised sewing supports.

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