Mäshafä salot - Book of Prayer [1495-1505]

The bookblock is repaired and resewn. Surface of all leaves is very dirty. Margins have numerous mechanical damages, tears and losses, especially in the beginning and in the end of the book. Parchment folios are hard and dark-yellowish. There are water- stains visible on folios edges in many places of the bookblock. In most cases deformations, numerous tears and folds are visible. Many of the folios are broken in the gutters. The book has its sewing threads broken in many places and a lot of the folios or quires are weakly connected with bookblock. There are small losses of the painting layer of miniatures on pages 30v and 153v. The binding - bare wooden boards are very dirty and deteriorated. Remnant of leather on the inner side of the back cover.