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Cuthbert Tunstall: De arte supputandi libri quattuor.   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
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Cuthbert Tunstall  (1474–1559) wikidata:Q725592 s:en:Author:Cuthbert Tunstall
 
Cuthbert Tunstall
Description English-British Catholic priest, judge, diplomat and Catholic bishop
Date of birth/death 1474 Edit this at Wikidata 18 November 1559 Edit this at Wikidata
Location of birth/death Hackforth Lambeth Palace
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creator QS:P170,Q725592
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De arte supputandi libri quattuor.
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Style: Medallion or plaquette|Panel design; Caption: Upper cover; Colour: Brown; Edge: Plain
Date Binding: 16c
Medium Decorative Technique: Tooled in blind|Tooled in gold; Cover Material: Calf
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Shelfmark: Davis384
Place of creation Binding: France
Object history Text: 1538; Paris; Unspecified
Notes Bound in Paris in the 1540s. With a medallion head in the centre of both covers, showing Mars on the upper cover and Lucretia on the lower cover. Rebound with original covers and spine strip retained. [Macchi states. Shelfmark C.108.g.8. shows the head and shoulders of a bearded man (Tarquin) wearing a fashionable head within a medallion too. Only three English bindings produced for Thomas Wotton are decorated with a similar medallion (M. Breslauer Inc., Catalogue 111, p. 86-89). An example is owned by the Cambridge University Library (Geoffrey Dudley Hobson, Bindings in Cambridge libraries, p. 68-69, pl. XXIII B, on The Lamentation of a Synner, London, Whitchurch, 1547 et alia; shelfmark Syn 8.54.100. Small round medaillon heads were popular on French and English bindings.
References See Mirjam M Foot, The Henry Davis Gift, Vol. III, London, 2010.
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