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Printed by Sebastian Gryphius in 1547, this item is an example demonstrating a binding repair in which the owner took special care to retain as many elements of the original binding as possible.

This post-incunabulum, an edition of Saint-Jerome’s works printed in Basel, Switzerland, has a binding typical of the first years of the 15th century, with its wooden boards and endpapers of manuscript waste.