Img. ID: 210123

Dark green leather on wooden boards (352 x235 mm); gold-tooled with a central roundel on the front and a shield on the back cover within an undulating lozenge in a large rectangle, decorated with floral motifs at the centre of each side and at the corners. The front roundel is inscribed פירושים with שערי צדק above it and the letters CCC below. The spine, blind-tooled with hatching, has four hidden cords and head and tail bands. On the edges of the front cover are vestiges of four groups of three plaited leather bands, two on the side and one each on the upper and lower edges, with corresponding holes for four nails on the edges of the back cover (for preserved bands see Cod.hebr. 301). Each group of three bands terminated in a ring intended to hook over the nails in the opposite cover. The leaves are gilt-edged.

This binding was made for Fugger by the 'Fugger Binder' in Venice(Hobson 1999:119-129). Similar bindings in BSB: e.g. Cod.hebr. 18, 63 and 20 A. hebr. 99.

Watermark of the front flyleaf: An anchor within a circle with a star on top at the centre of the folio

(65 mm): similar to Harlfinger 1974-80, Ancre 24-31 (Venice, 1556).