Spine

The spine is crafted from brown leather, featuring decorative gold-stamped (gilt) patterns known as tooling. It contains several titles and organizational labels.

This number likely refers to an old inventory or collection sequence.

original: THEOL. This refers to the study of religious belief and the nature of the divine.

original: PHISIO. In the early modern period, "physiology" or "physiologia" referred broadly to "natural philosophy"—the study of the physical world, nature, and the human body.

original: ANIMA. This section would deal with the nature of the mind, spirit, or life-force.

This is a shelfmark, a code used by a library or collector to indicate exactly where the book should be placed on a shelf.

The labels are printed on small paper slips or stamped directly into the leather between the raised bands of the spine. These markings allowed the owner or librarian to identify the book's contents without pulling it from the shelf.