Uppsala University Library, Gr. 12

Collation

Condition

Support

Bookblock

Script

Decorations

Additions

Endleaves

Layout

Binding

Byzantine style binding, possibly original. Brown goat leather over wooden boards, cut flush with the bookblock; thickness 10 mm (left board), 12 mm (right board); shallow grooves in board edges, stopping short of the corners.

Unsupported sewing at 3 stations prepared with v-nick at distances measuring [20, =change-over station?] 55, 90, 128 mm from head edge. Sewing thread of medium thickness, s-ply. Board attachment: small portion of the thread present on the inner face. Raised endbands extending onto board edges, primary sewing in plain thread on two cores.

Bookmarks: one endband string marker with knot in front of the headband; numerous leaf tab markers in leather at foredge – a couple in green, most in dark brown, some missing. Imprints of two triple interlaced strap fastenings visible on inside of right board; foredge pins missing .

Binding dimensions: 185 × 130 × 85 mm