File:Benedictio dei patris c-u angelis suis sit super me am-e, etc. - Lower cover (c41b2).jpg

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Benedictio dei patris c:u angelis suis sit super me am:e, etc.
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Benedictio dei patris c:u angelis suis sit super me am:e, etc.
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Style: Cornerpiece|Semis, background of small tools|Religious miscellaneous; Caption: Lower cover; Colour: Unspecified; Edge: Unspecified
Date Binding: 16c
Medium Decorative Technique: Tooled in gold; Cover Material: Leather (unspecified)
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Shelfmark: c41b2
Place of creation Binding: France
Object history Text: 1503; Paris; Unspecified
Notes Late 16 early 17c. Note the spine without raised bands, the à l'ancienne border (featured by three concentric fillets thereof two approached) and the corners cherubs within branchages (Bibliothèque de Troyes, Reliures du dix-septième siècle, p. 19, n. 19, shelfmark REL. C.16.; Burlington Fine Arts Club, Exhibition of bookbindings, p. 47, pl. LVI on Paulus Melissus, Schediasmata Poetica, Lutetiae, Parisiorum, 1586, owned by the Queen; Det danske Kunstindustrimuseums udstilling 1906, p. 63, n. 44 on Marco Guazzo, Cronica, Venezia, 1553; W. Y. Fletcher, Foreign Bindings in the British Museum, pl. 36; G. D. Hobson, Les reliures à la fanfare, p. 38, fig. 43; J. B. Oldham, Shrewbury School Library Bindings, p. 123, pl. XVIII on Antiquitatum romanarum Pauli Mannucci liber de senatu, Venice 1581, shelfmark K VIII 54 T; H. B. Wheatley, Les reliures remarquables du Musée Britannnique, p. 78-79, pl. XXXV on L'histoire des faicts gestes et conquestes des Roys, Princes, Seigneurs et peuple de France, Paris, Frederic Morel, 1581 - see Davis 446), even silver decorated [this motif is available on silver decorated bindings too - Librairie Sourget, Cent livres précieux de 1469 à 1914, n.32 on Sette libri di satire di M. Ariosto, H. Bentivogli, L. Alemanni, P. Nelli, Ant. Vinciguerra, Far Sansovino, e d'altri scrittori, Venice, Vidali, 1573], with Henri III coat-of-arms provided cover) indicate this binding was produced at least during the XVI th second half century. Still used in the XVIII th century (J. R. Abbey, Catalogue of valuable printed books and fine bindings, 21-23 June 1965, p. 225, lot. 578, pl. 73).The au semé decoration appears currently on XVII th century French bindings.
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