Flap of Bookbinding, 14th century, Attributed to Egypt, Leather, silk, and gold; cut, tooled, 14 3/16 x 5 15/16 in. (36 x 15.1 cm), Codices, A corollary of luxury book production was the development of the art of bookbinding. The envelope flap is a distinctive feature of Islamic bindings, attached to the edge of the back cover and designed to wrap around the pages and tuck under the front cover, in order to protect the manuscript
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