Upper cover of Bartholomaeus Anglicus, De proprietatibus rerum (Strassburg: [Printer of the 1483 Jordanus de Quedlinburg (Georg Husner)], 11 Aug. 1491). qRSM Story BART 1491.
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{{Information |Description=German books of this period were often bound in alum-tawed pigskin, a very durable skin and particularly suited to blind tooling. In this example, the pigskin is laid over thick wooden boards and there are two clasps at the fore