External binding structure. Front cover with blind stamped and tooled tanned leather cover depicting the Virgin and the Child. Peter Comestor, Historia Scholastica, 1451

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London, British Library. Add. Ms. 18972. Front cover. After Michelle Brown, Understanding Illuminated Manuscripts: A Guide to Technical Terms (London: The J. Paul Getty Museum in association with the British Library, 1994), 6.