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Divae Catherinae Senensis.
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Louis XII Bindery
Author
Pins, Jean de.
Title
Divae Catherinae Senensis.
Description
Style: Panel design; Caption: Upper cover; Colour: Brown; Edge: Gilt & gauffered
Date Binding: 16c
Medium Decorative Technique: Tooled in blind|Tooled in gold; Cover Material: Calf
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Shelfmark: Davis362
Place of creation Binding: France
Object history Text: 1505; Bologna; Unspecified
Notes Bound in Paris by Simon Vostre, c. 1505-1515. Edges gilt and gauffered with large stylized fleurons, possibly later. . [Macchi states; first quarter century, Paris, bound by the Atelier Louis XII workshop, apparently the first in France to use tooling in gold, probably located in Paris. About 45 known examples. The royal Blois library books were transferred 1544 by François I to Fontainebleau (É. Dacier, Les premières reliures, 1933, pp. 7-40)
References

See M M Foot, 'The earliest known gold tooled bookbindings' in The New Bookbinder, vol 20, 2000, p17. See M M Foot, The Henry Davis Gift, Vol. III, London, 2010.

See Marie Pierre Lafitte, Reliures royales, Paris, 2001; Lafitte & Fabienne Le Bars, Reliures royales de la Renaissance, Paris, 1999J. Guignard, L'atelier des reliures Louis XII, p. 202-239, & Premières reliures parisiennes, p. 229-249). See J. R.Abbey, Catalogue of valuable printed books and fine bindings, 21-23 June 1965, n. 549, pl. 69; Sotheby & Co., London, Catalogue june 22 nd 1936, n.112; J. Guignard L'atelier des reliures Louis XII, p. 232-233, planche II, n. 5).]
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