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Thin to medium-weight parchment, well selected and prepared; severely cropped
According to Heiner Gillmeister, this, and the other on fol. 70r, are the earliest known images of tennis being played.
According to Heiner Gillmeister, this, and the other on fol. 59v, are the earliest known images of tennis being played.
Seventeenth-century brown morocco; front and back cover stamped with gilt armorial shield of Charles Emmanuel II, duke of Savoy, 1634-75, with collar of the Order of the Annunciation; gilt fillet frame with fleurons at corners; spine near-flat with gilt fleurons; gilt edges