The earliest elaborately decorated bookbindings, particularly those made for church altars, could incorporate the work of jewelers, goldsmiths, ivory carvers, and embroiderers. Surviving examples show the use of precious and decorative materials. Decorated leather also became an important form of artistic bookbinding and was practiced in monasteries of the Coptic Church in Egypt.
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