You Will Never Fail, Earlier 19th Century Manuscript Recipe for Tempering Edge Tools Japan certainly the intent was to

certainly the intent was to facilitate design thinking and pattern play much more broadly

The "ice" on the top

And two holes at the corner for hanging

and whatever closure once existed (seems likely a snap attached to black ribbon) is gone

Photos document all pages excepting a few blank pages at the end

You Will Never Fail, Earlier 19th Century Manuscript Recipe for Tempering Edge Tools Japan certainly the intent was toA Reipt [I believe meant as receipt, widely used instead of recipe in the 19th century] to tempur [sic] edge tools. Take 5th of tallow, 1 1 2th of hard sope [sic], 1th of beeswax, 1th of horse hoof, 1th of salt first fry the horses foot [crossed out] hoof in the tallow then take out the horse hoof then boil it all together and put it in a troft [sic] large enough to temper any tool then heat the tool a chery [sic] red and stick it in and leave it be