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To me, the object looks like a partially unrolled scroll. The top of the object, held in front of the wing on the viewer's right, is composed of a roughly cylindrical part with an extension curling around behind it. The edge of the curling extension appears just to our right of the main cylindrical part. Everything below that is hidden by the angel's veiled proper left hand. The edge of the drapery covering that hand is pulled tight by the other hand, looking somewhat like a stick, but if you look carefully you will see that small folds radiate out from behind the knuckles of the proper right hand. Those folds demonstrate that what the hand grasps is in fact drapery. (To see any of this detail, you have to click on the largest version of the photo.)
A book in scroll form would be a logical counterpart for a book in codex form above.
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