MS. Lat. liturg. f. 33

Binding

Original(?) blind-tooled binding. Sewn on three double cords; twisted brown and white endbands; bound in blind-tooled reddish-brown leather over wood boards, chamfered on the inner faces; each cover tooled with an outer framing border of repeat tools, that on the upper board of square four-petalled flowers, that on the lower of rectangles of scrolling foliage; containing an inner border with quatrefoil stamps; and a central rectangle composed of two vertical lines of repeated square saltire-shaped foliate designs; the spine with vertical lines tooled through the middle and at the joints; the fore-edges with metal fittings for clasps, each fixed by two nails, for fastening from bottom to top, the leather straps now missing; the spine and joints re-inforceed with strips of a 14th(?)-cent. parchment religious manuscript written in two columns; the top compartment of the spine with the badly damaged remains of a paper label inscribed in a ???th-cent. hand, the title illegible.