Medieval Bindings

ManuscriptBinding Description
Chatsworth, Chatsworth House, Duke of Devonshire's MSMedieval. Size: 235 x 145 mm. Cover of white leather over oak boards. Three raised bands across the spine. Fixing of cov...
London, British Library, Additional 37787Medieval binding, c. 1400. 195 x 135 mm. Covered in red leather mitred and pasted onto the boards. Boards of bevelled oa...
London, British Library, Additional 38666Medieval binding (mid fifteenth century). Size: 220 x 145 mm. Covered in white leather now discoloured to light brown, m...
London, British Library, Stowe 949Probably medieval. Thick, rough oak boards, soft bevelled edge c. 20 mm. Thickness of c. 15 mm. Wormholes. Cover missing...
Oxford, Bodleian Library, Hatton 19Medieval. Size: 300 x 220 mm. Covered with white leather now worn and torn. Rebacked. Support of oak boards cut flush wi...
Oxford, Bodleian Library, Junius 56Medieval. Early fifteenth century. 210 x 135 mm. Covered in white leather now brown. Rebacked. Mitred and pasted. Suppor...
Oxford, Bodleian Library, Laud Misc. 463Medieval binding. Size: 356 x 235 mm. Cover of wooden/oak boards covered in what was red leather but now faded to white ...
Oxford, Bodleian Library, Laud Misc. 486Medieval, c. 1390-1410. Covered in white leather, mitred and pasted. Size: 225 x 130 mm. Support of bevelled (15 mm) oak...
Oxford, Bodleian Library, Laud Misc. 601Medieval. Size: 310 x 210 mm. Originally red leather although Pächt and Alexander describe it as 'white' (1973, p. ...
Oxford, Bodleian Library, Laud Misc. 706Medieval binding. Size: 230 x 150 mm. Cover of white leather dyed red now rubbed/faded and damaged showing the boards b...
Oxford, Bodleian Library, Tanner 201Medieval binding, 1450-1500. Size: 210 x 145 mm. Undecorated white leather, mitred and pasted on 5 mm thick oak boards w...
Oxford, Corpus Christi College, 59The binding could be medieval, skin over board, perhaps originally calf (suede). Size: 220 x 150 mm. Sewn on six double ...
Southwell, Southwell Minster, VIIMedieval binding in red leather over wooden boards, rebacked in 1950. Boards are bare but part of the original leather i...