Protection Racket?
What are THOSE up at the top of this enormous choirbook?
#NewberryLibrary #ManuscriptMonday (Case MS oversize 87)
Looks like leftover stitching from one of the largest silk curtains I've ever (not) seen! And many of the initials are faking us out with faux stitching around the edges!
There are also scads of fabric tabs marking out different sections of the book, and that IHS sun at the end (next to another set of tabs) is a doozy!