File:Girone il Cortese - Upper cover (Davis501).jpg

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Girone il Cortese
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Luigi Almanni
Title
Girone il Cortese
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Style: Interlacing ribbon/strapwork|Panel design|All over design; Caption: Upper cover; Colour: Brown; Edge: Gilt
Date Binding: 16c
Medium Decorative Technique: Tooled in gold; Cover Material: Calf
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Shelfmark: Davis501
Place of creation Binding: France
Object history Text: 1548; Paris; Unspecified
Notes c.1550, Paris? Smooth spine, tooled in gold, sewn on 3 recessed cords. Traces of 4 pairs of ties (as in Italian bindings). Single wtih a bead endbands, tied down. Ms notes on endleaves.
References

M M Foot, Henry Davis Gift, vol III, p94. For aonther example see Mostra storica della legatura artistica in Palazzo Pitti, 1922, n. 375, see T. de Marinis, Appunti, p. 123, n. 30 on L. Alamanni, Gyrone il cortese, Paris, 1584, kept in Florence, Landau Finaly Library. See also T. de Marinis, Appunti, pl. CCXXVIII. Christie's (New York) lot 1 sale 9178 9 June 1999.

For other French 16c bindings see Marie-Pierre Laffitte & Fabienne Le Bars, Reliures royales de la Renaissance, Paris, 1999
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