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Thin to medium-weight, well-prepared and selected parchment; pages pressed and flattened during the last binding; modern paper flyleaves
Rebound in the late nineteenth century in Frankfurt, Germany, by L. Stephanus (signed "L. Stephanus Buchbinder" on leather of bottom turn in on upper board and "Frankfurt a. M." on lower board); sewn on three recessed chords; dark green leather with a Gothic Revival-style engraved gilded metal cross with a carved ivory figure of Christ and with evangelist symbols at ends of the cross arms and various colored cabochons in the upper corners; lower board blind tooled with scrolls inscribed "ihesus" and "maria" in center panel, with pierced gilded corner pieces containing red stones and thin gilded clasps hinged to lower board; page edges painted red and accented with tooled gold pattern including rosettes and fleur-de-lis; white silk ribbon bookmark finished with gold tassel