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Bookbinding14th century

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Worn dark brown leather book cover laid flat, with tooled geometric decoration and scattered gold dot clusters across three panels, left edge cut to a pointed flap

Unknown, Bookbinding, 14th century, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, The Madina Collection of Islamic Art, gift of Camilla Chandler Frost, photo © Museum Associates/LACMA

Title
Bookbinding
Place Made
Egypt
Date Made
14th century
Medium
Leather, blind tooled, and stamped with treated paper insets
Dimensions
10 3/8 x 19 in. (26.35 x 48.26 cm)
Credit Line
The Madina Collection of Islamic Art, gift of Camilla Chandler Frost
Accession Number
M.2002.1.562
Classification
Manuscripts
Collecting Area
Art of the Middle East: Islamic

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