Binding and Exterior Description

This image displays the exterior of a bound volume, showing both the spine and the front cover. The book is bound in a half-leather style a binding where the spine and corners are protected by leather, while the sides are covered in paper or cloth. It features dark brown leather with a pebble-grained texture on the spine and corners.

The boards are covered with marbled paper paper decorated with swirling pigment patterns to resemble stone or liquid in a "snail" or shell-like design, using a palette of dark red, ochre-yellow, and black. The spine is decorated with five prominent raised bands horizontal ridges where the leather covers the cords used to sew the book sections together, which create six distinct compartments. In the second compartment from the top, there is a rectangular red leather label that still shows faint traces of gilded text.