Davenport, Cyril, 1848-1941 · New York : D. Van Nostrand · leaf 60
at thatit pays the cleyei faussaires of the Continent to direct theirattention to covers of this kind. They need not even takethe trouble to provide manuscripts for the inside; loosecovers will hell with equal readiness. Ivory carving played an important part on early bindings.Apart from diptychs,… … Fig. 48.—French Liiitlingof the thirteenth cen-tury with enamels. 48 THE BOOK: ITS HISTORY AND DEVELOPMENT. kept in the cathedral treasury at Milan, and is without itsoriginal inside; it is attributed to the iifth century./ Early Irish manuscripts were usually l)ound in quiti;simple limp leather…
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