Historic bindings in the Bodleian Library, Oxford : with reproductions of twenty-four of the finest bindings (1891)
Brassington, William Salt, 1859-1939, Bodleian Library · London : Sampson Low, Marston and Co. · leaf 138
binding, but there are several points of interest to benoted in the decoration. The leather used is fine in quality andof a light brown colour; large elliptical stamps in the centre of thesides are surrounded by delicate gold-tooling representing quiversfull of arrows, between which are sprinkled… … HORE BEATE VIRGINIS MARIE. In brown leather, gold-tooled. Plate XV. PLATE XV. 33 clouds of glory composed of Hebrew characters, probably repre-senting the following text in a contracted form and withoutpoints :— DrOD una man b nba THE WHOLE EARTH IS FILLED WITHHIS GLORY. Perhaps this is an unique…
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