Keywords: Psalter and Canticles -2nd half of the 12th century - Upper cover (Add MS 40753).jpg Style Centrepiece; Caption Upper cover; Colour Brown; Edge Unspecified exhibition history Decorative Technique Tooled in gold; Cover Material Goatskin includes morocco turkey etc 18th century of wooden boards covered with dark red gilt-tooled leather In the centre of each side is an oval gilt-stamped panel of floral design like that in Add MS 40754 There are remains of metal clasps Eastern Mediterranean Likely Palestine or Cyprus given the script Canart 1981 Two clasps catching on to the upper cover object history Text 13c; Unspecified; Unspecified object type Cc-zero place of creation Binding Eastern Mediterranean place of discovery Unspecified British Library image http //www bl uk/catalogues/bookbindings/LargeImage aspx RecordId 020-000019490 ImageId ImageId 57740 Copyright BL Psalter and Canticles 2nd half of the 12th century Uploaded with GWToolset Psalter and Canticles 2nd half of the 12th century - Upper cover Add MS 40753 http //www webarchive org uk/bldatasets/bindings/add_ms_40753_fblefr jpg Bookbinding 18th-century bookbinding British Library Bookbindings Taken with Phase One IQ140 |