This image shows the spine of this large Bible (weighing 15 pounds) with decorative tooling in the brown leather. Much of the leather is starting to dry up and flake off. Since leather is an organic material, this book (and others bound in leather) are in essentially a constant state of decay.
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It is easy to tell that this Bible has been rebound. Oftentimes, when a book has been rebound, bookmakers need to take more material from the block of text than was necessary originally.
Click to enlarge the image. If you look closedly at the edge of the pages, you can see how some words have been cut off in the margins because the book was rebound.
In this image of the "Bugge" Bible, note the drawings that are scribbled in the open space where there is no text. Since this Bible was originally printed in 1551, it has likely had many owners in its lifetime. It is not known who drew the "doodles" on the page seen above or what, if anything, the drawings mean.
Also, take note of the way the text tapers off and becomes more narrow in the column on the right.
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