This type of bookbinding is called a girdle book...
well suited for carrying the book. The book could
be hung from the girdle or belt and swung upward
for reading while still attached to the girdle, or be
hung from a saddle horn,
The Danish Royal Library informs us.
link & see Cynthia Virtue's girdle book
This book is from ca. 1490, and it is 'The Law of Jutland Denmark'....legal manuscripts.
It can be traced back to the scribe Jens Nielsen
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