Mich. Ms. 26: The Four Gospels: front cover and part of the spine

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Item Data

Date: End of the 13th or first quarter of the 14th century CE.
Item Source: Julia Miller. Tradition and Individuality: Bindings from the University of Michigan Greek Manuscript Collection. Introduction by Pablo Alvarez. With contributions by Kyle Clark. Ann Arbor, MI: The Legacy Press, 2021, 114-120. Plate 2.48a.
Description: Mich. ms. 26. front cover and part of the spine; note the very faint pattern of blind tooloing, the three corner bosses, a central brass plaquette decorated with blue enamel, and the two edge pegs, one is intact, with only the bolster remaining of the other.
Format: 150 x 110 x 100 mm. Wooden boards, 10 mm. thick, with the grains running vertically, covered with dark-brown leather, probably goatskin.