Keywords: Four Gospels (Gregory-Aland 272) - Upper Cover (Add ms 15581).jpg Style Panel design Animals; Caption Upper Cover; Colour Brown; Edge Unspecified exhibition history Decorative Technique Tooled in blind Panel stamp in blind; Cover Material Calf Rebacked Full calf leather 15th or 16th century; wooden boards; blind tooled decoration on both boards with triple lines fillet framing an elaborated central block with plant style animal decoration and Gothic script O mors quam/ amara est memoria tua/ homini habenti/ spem sitam in divitiis suis ; remains of the fastening two copper catch plates on the lower; four single cords with evidence in the gutter of three previous sewing stations with V shaped cuts Byzantine sewing May be French English or Netherlands binding object history Text 16c; Greece; Unspecified object type Cc-zero place of creation Binding France place of discovery Unspecified British Library image http //www bl uk/catalogues/bookbindings/LargeImage aspx RecordId 020-000018406 ImageId ImageId 57074 Copyright BL Four Gospels Gregory-Aland 272 Uploaded with GWToolset Four Gospels Gregory-Aland 272 - Upper Cover Add ms 15581 http //www webarchive org uk/bldatasets/bindings/add_ms_15581_fblefr jpg Bookbinding 16th-century bookbinding British Library Bookbindings |