this book is vellum-bound or bound in vellum

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• Book of Kells — The Book of Kells ( ga. Leabhar Cheanannais) (Dublin, Trinity College Library, MS A. I. (58), sometimes known as the Book of Columba) is an illuminated manuscript in Latin, containing the four Gospels of the New Testament together with various… …   Wikipedia

• Book — A book is a set or collection of written, printed, illustrated, or blank sheets, made of paper, parchment, or other material, usually fastened together to hinge at one side. A single sheet within a book is called a leaf, and each side of a leaf… …   Wikipedia

• book — bookless, adj. booklike, adj. /book/, n. 1. a written or printed work of fiction or nonfiction, usually on sheets of paper fastened or bound together within covers. 2. a number of sheets of blank or ruled paper bound together for writing,… …   Universalium

• Book of Durrow — The beginning of the Gospel of Mark from the Book of Durrow. The Book of Durrow (Dublin, Trinity College Library, MS A. 4. 5. (57)) is a 7th century illuminated manuscript gospel book in the Insular style. It was probably created between 650 and… …   Wikipedia

• Book collecting — Some inexpensive collectible books Book collecting is the collecting of books, including seeking, locating, acquiring, organizing, cataloging, displaying, storing, and maintaining whatever books are of interest to a given individual collector.… …   Wikipedia

• Book of hours — A book of hours is the most common type of surviving medieval illuminated manuscript. Each book of hours is unique in one way or another, but all contain a collection of texts, prayers and psalms, along with appropriate illustrations, to form a… …   Wikipedia

• The Book of Armagh —     The Book of Armagh     † Catholic Encyclopedia ► The Book of Armagh     Technically known as LIBER AR(D)MACHANUS.     A celebrated Irish Latin manuscript preserved in the Library of Trinity College, Dublin. It is a vellum, in small quarto,… …   Catholic encyclopedia

• Yellow Book of Lecan — The Yellow Book of Lecan ( Leabhar Buidhe Lecain ) is an medieval Irish manuscript written no later than the dawn of the 15th century. It is currently housed at Trinity College, Dublin and should not be confused with the Great Book of Lecan. [… …   Wikipedia

• History of the book — The history of the book is the story of a suite of technological innovations that improved the quality of text conservation, the access to information, portability, and the cost of production. This history is strongly linked to political and… …   Wikipedia

• Codex — This article is about ancient and medieval books. For other uses, see Codex (disambiguation). Christian Bible as codex A codex (Latin caudex for trunk of a tree or block of wood, book; plural codices) is a book in the format used for modern books …   Wikipedia

• Gutenberg Bible — of the New York Public Library, bought by James Lenox in 1847. The first to come to the USA, national folklore has it that the officers at the New York Customs House removed their hats on seeing it. The Gutenberg Bible (also known as the 42 line… …   Wikipedia