This is from a MS. of the book of the Prophet Isaiah, with a gloss or
commentary, presented to the Prior and convent of Durham, along with
others by Robert de Adington, who is known to have lived about 1160,
and preserved in the Library of the Cathedral of Durham, to the present
time. It is a leather cover without knobs, those having been added in the
etching as characteristic of the binding of that time. It will be seen
that the general design is completed by repeating the individual stamps
of which it is composed.