Metal closure: volume with alchemical treatises (tied in Strasbourg around 1568, collection of the Science History Institute, Philadelphia)
Leather closure: Sachsenspiegel (hand written in 1385, Duisburg city library)
A book clasp is a leather or metal element attached to the medieval and early modern book covers, used to protect the book from the penetration of dust and light.
A bookclasp is a leather or metal element attached to the medieval and early modern book covers, used to protect the book from the penetration of dust...
bookbinding method in which the book has flexible cloth, leather, vellum, or (rarely) paper sides. When the sides of the book are made of vellum, the bookbinding...
short citation] Other finds included a 7th-century Kentish jewellery book-clasp depicting eagles grasping a fish.[incomplete short citation] The recorded...
A "5th AUG.–22nd NOV. 1914" clasp was instituted in 1919, as published in Army Order no. 361 of 16 October 1919. The clasp, together with two small silver...
short citation] Other finds included a 7th-century Kentish jewellery book-clasp depicting eagles grasping a fish.[incomplete short citation] During the...
(CLASP) is a nonpartisan organization based in Washington, D.C. that engages in anti-poverty advocacy. The Center for Law and Social Policy (CLASP) was...
you are again faced with stalemate within a duel, where your swords are clasped together. In one motion, when your sword springs away from theirs, Musashi...
Knives with locking blades, often referred to as lock-blade knives or clasp knives, have a locking mechanism that locks the blade into its fully opened...
programme Time Team, called "Nuns in Northumbria", where bones and a bookclasp were found. A history of Hartlepool. Re-pr., with a suppl. history to...
in which a heart represents love, the crown stands for loyalty, and two clasped hands symbolize friendship. The design and customs associated with it originated...
Baronetcy of Ness Arms of Errington, Baronets of Ness: "An open bookclasped on a chief Azure a spur rowel upwards between two portcullises chained Or...
Long Service Medal. In 1929, subsequent awards could be recognised by a clasp inscribed Long Service. The Special Constabulary Long Service Medal was...
The Exeter Book, also known as the Codex Exoniensis or Exeter Cathedral Library MS 3501, is a large codex of Old English poetry, believed to have been...
punctures, artisan clasps, and possibly a family crest or other mark on the front. Given the security afforded by carrying the book around, it was less...
The following is a list of characters in the Malazan Book of the Fallen epic fantasy series by Steven Erikson, as well as characters who appear in the...
substantial Saxon building, the remains of a high-status medieval building, a bookclasp dating from around the time of the monastery, and the complete skeleton...
Kercher's bra clasp. Giulia Bongiorno, leading Sollecito's defence, questioned how Sollecito's DNA could have gotten on the small metal clasp of the bra...
silver, the recipient must be a holder of the Iron Cross (1939) 1st Class or Clasp to the 1914 Iron Cross 1st Class, or the War Merit Cross 1st Class with...
causing the book to take on a characteristic wedge shape, the wooden covers of medieval books were often secured with straps or clasps. These straps...
separately into the wooden boards. Metalwork book furniture also included metal clasps holding the book shut when not in use, and isolated metal elements...