Capture your thoughts, ideas, sketches, or stories in this beautiful journal that breathes history. A genuine buffalo leather cover, handmade paper, and a traditional stitched binding make it more than just an ordinary notebook—it's a personal artifact and a companion for your creativity. A long leather strap ensures that your secrets remain safely kept inside. Further product information ...
Hand-Bound Leather Journal, Medieval Style
A Space for Your Imagination
With over two hundred blank pages of high-quality, textured paper, this journal can become whatever you wish it to be. Use it as a personal diary, a travel journal, a Book of Shadows, a herbarium, a chronicle for your LARP character, or as a sketchbook for your artistic visions. The handmade paper is of sufficient quality to prevent ink bleed-through, making it excellent for use with pens, pencils, and even calligraphy.
The Legacy of Medieval Scriptoriums
In the age before the printing press, every book was a precious, handcrafted work of art. Monks in scriptoriums would spend months transcribing and illuminating texts onto expensive parchment. With its leather cover, visible stitching on the spine, and wrap-around tie, this journal harks back to that very tradition, where a book was not a consumer good, but a treasured personal item.
A Historical Tidbit
The book format as we know it today—bound sheets between two covers, called a codex—gained prominence at the end of the Roman Empire and became the standard in the Middle Ages. It replaced the previously used scrolls. The codex was far more practical: it allowed for easy flipping and searching, was more compact, and could hold more text. This journal is therefore a direct descendant of one of the most important innovations in the history of writing.
Specifications and Leather Care
Each piece is an original, so the dimensions and shade of the leather may vary slightly.
Parameter | Value |
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Cover Material | Genuine Buffalo Leather |
Paper | Handmade, textured, natural paper |
Page Count | Approx. 220 pages (110 sheets) |
Binding | Hand-stitched |
Dimensions | Approx. 18 x 13.5 x 2.5 cm / 7 x 5.3 x 1 inches |
Weight | Approx. 390 g / 0.86 lbs |
How to Care for Your Journal
Genuine leather is a durable material that will serve you for a long time. Protect the journal from excessive moisture and prolonged, direct sunlight. To keep the leather supple and protected, you can occasionally treat it with a thin layer of leather balm or conditioner. Minor scratches and scuffs that occur through use are not flaws—on the contrary, they add to the journal's unique character and patina.
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