Book historians refer to this binding style as "concertina" because of its accordion-like appearance. This particular book, now in the Royal Danish Library in Copenhagen, was in the collection of Seventeenth Century scholar Peder Scavenius. It's a copy of the Old Testament in Hebrew. Reading it requires flipping the book over as one proceeds through four divisions.
-via Paul Babinski
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