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| Keywords: Psalter-Coptic (Sahidic) - Upper cover (Or50000).jpg Star Religious miscellaneous Coptic; Caption Upper cover; Colour Brown; Edge Unspecified exhibition history Decorative Technique Tooled in blind Tooled in gold; Cover Material Goatskin includes morocco turkey etc Coptic Doublue boards made from papyrus D Cockerell 1932 p 10 Szirmai the sheets of papyrus for the boards were made up to twice the size of the book folded like a quire and sewn through the fold hence the attachment forms an integral part of the sewing with two single leather thongs at the top and bottom and three on the front edge of the upper cover and three simple metal rings anchored with short leather straps in the corresponding places on the front edge of the lower cover For other covers of Coptic codices at the British Library see Or 5001 Or 6801 Or 7027 and Or 7597 For high resolution image please go to Images Online There is a demonstration of Coptic sewing on ibookbinding com object history Text 7 - 8c; Egypt; Unspecified object type Cc-zero place of creation Binding Egypt place of discovery Szirmai J A The archaeology of medieval bookbinding Aldershot Brookfield VT Ashgate Publishing 1999 Lindsay Jen The Edfu Collection of Coptic Books New Bookbinder v 21 2001 Pages 31-51; Sharpe John The Earliest Bindings with Wooden Board Covers The Coptic Contribution to Binding Construction International Conference on Conservation and Restoration of Archive and Library Materials - Preprints Erice 22-29 April 1996 pp 381-400 Bookbinding 2000 proceedings a collection of papers from the June 2000 conference celebrating the installation and opening of the Bernard C Middleton collection Rochester N Y 2002 British Library image http //www bl uk/catalogues/bookbindings/LargeImage aspx RecordId 020-000018036 ImageId ImageId 56865 Copyright BL Psalter Coptic Sahidic Uploaded with GWToolset Psalter Coptic Sahidic - Upper cover Or50000 http //www webarchive org uk/bldatasets/bindings/Or5000 jpg 8th-century bookbinding British Library Oriental Manuscripts British Library Bookbindings | ||||
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