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| [Breviary for the use of Toledo] Manuscript on parchment | ||||
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[Breviary for the use of Toledo] Manuscript on parchment |
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Style: Interlacing ribbon/strapwork|Knotwork/ropework|Mudejar, Moorish inspired geometric; Caption: Lower cover; Colour: Brown; Edge: Plain |
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| Date | Binding: 15c | |||
| Medium | Decorative Technique: Tooled in blind|Painted; Cover Material: Goatskin (includes morocco, turkey etc) | |||
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Shelfmark: Davis656 |
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| Place of creation | Binding: Spain | |||
| Object history | Text: late 15c; Toledo; Unspecified | |||
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Designs differ on upper and lower covers. Upper cover. Macchi states; Matilde Lopez Serrano suggests 4 groups of Mudejar binding: - 1st group: Moslem type, with a large interlace, star or hexagonal motifs, interlaced and repeated; - 2nd group: central gothic l motifs (quadrilobed tools, crosses, lozenges, escutcheons). These can be repeated several times; - 3rd group: no central motif but all over decoration in a large rectangle surrounded by one or more borders. - 4th group: later (XV th century end - XVI th century beginning), characterised by one or two large central circles, decorated with small tools and a frame. According to Serrano, every group owes its characteristics more to the particular workshop than to its date. As general rule however, the oldest bindings depict squares and rectangles and few borders; those with geometrical motifs were produced later, during the XV th or XVI th century. This style, derived from gothic friezes combined with other influences from the Islamic world, originated and developed during the Reconquista period (XI th -XV th century), is the most characteristic of Spain. It was carried out by artists called mudejares (those who remained), mainly Moorish or islamised Jewish people remained in Castille after the Christian reconquest. In the reconquered towns, Arab workers who continued to practice their high level skills eg leather tanning: the Spanish-Moslem technique resulted in smooth and brilliant skins better adapted to tooling than rough cow-, pig-, stagskins used in Europe. In all its forms, the mudejar decoration presents purely abstract schemes, according to Islamic rules. (M. López Serrano, La encuadernación española; F. Macchi - L. Macchi, Il Dizionario illustrato, p. 321-322; R. Miquel y Planas, Restauración del Arte hispano-árabe, p. 16-21). |
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| References | M M Foot, The Henry Davis Gift, vol III, London, 2010. Works on Spanish bookbindings include Hispanic Society of America, An Album of Selected Bookbindings, New York, 1967 [by C L Penney]; H Thomas, Early Spanish Bookbindings, London, 1939. | |||
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