MS. Canon. Liturg. 283

Binding

16th century, French?: pasteboards; brown leather, gilt-tooled with an all-over pattern of lines, stems, shells and leaves, the stems further highlighted with lighter brown paint (now worn); at centre of each cover in gilt letters, initials ‘.A.P.’; spine in same style, no title or label; traces of four lost pairs of ties of blue textile; edges gilt, gauffered with a leafy pattern. Spine re-laid onto modern reback leather of similar colour, 20th century, Bodleian. 183 × 138–140 × c. 48–50 mm. (book closed).