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Codex Borgia is made of animal skin (deer hide) and folded into a screen fold. Single sheets of hide or paper are attached as a long strip and then folded back and forth. Images were painted on both sides and painted with a white gesso. Wood or stiffened leather end pieces were glued to the first and the lasts strips to create a cover. The Borgia artists made sure the edges overlapped and were cautiously glued together= hardly visible under the gesso finish.Gesso finish is a fine coating that creates a stiff, smooth, white finished surface that preserves the painted images.