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books for the library had leather covers decorated, often all over, with tooling (impressed decoration), and often small metal embellishments such as bosses and corners called furniture. Medieval tooling showed animals and figures as well as the vegetal and geometric designs that would later dominate book cover decoration. Until the end of the period books were not usually stood up on shelves in the modern way. The most functional books were bound in plain white vellum

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