A history of the art of bookbinding : with some account of the books of the ancients (1894)
Brassington, William Salt, 1859-1939, editor, Hannett, John, 1803-1893 · London : E. Stock · leaf 104
who travelled early in the nineteenthcentury, noticed that books in the library of the Abyssinian Monastery of Sourians, on theMatron Lakes in Egypt, were bound in the usual way, either in red leather or in wooden 1 M. Stokes, Early Christian Art in Ireland, p. 50, where the satchel is stated… … CASE OF MOLAISES GOSPELS (UPPER SIDE) IRISH WORK. EARLY I ITH CENTURY.(Photographed from the original in the Altiseuvi of the Royal Irish Academy.) BOOK-SATCHELS. 77 boards, which were occasionally elaborately carved in rude and coarse devices. Thebooks were enclosed in cases tied up with leather…
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