The binding has a sort of doublure at each end, one bearing roll VIII and orns. 25--27 and the other roll X and orn. 26 (see J. B. Oldham, Shrewbury School Library Bindings, pp. 21--2). There are half a dozen examples in Oxford sixteenth-century binding of old covers being used inside new ones as strengthening, and this seems to be one of the same kind, with the difference that the covers are apparently unused 'binder's waste'. NRK, POB, 57 n.1, did not think that they were doublures in the ordinary sense, as Oldham supposed.