File:L'office de la Vierge Marie - Upper cover (c129mm4).jpg
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L'office de la Vierge Marie |
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Style: Semis, background of small tools|Macabre, funerary motifs; Caption: Upper cover; Colour: Brown; Edge: Unspecified |
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| Date | Binding: 16c | |||
| Medium | Decorative Technique: Tooled in silver; Cover Material: Goatskin (includes morocco, turkey etc) | |||
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Shelfmark: c129mm4 |
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| Place of creation | Binding: France | |||
| Object history | Text: 1586; Paris; Compagnie des Confreres de la Mort | |||
| Notes | The colour of the leather is in fact brown, not red. The silver tooling has turned black. Bound for a member of the Compagnie des Confreres de la Mort. For other French 16c bindings see Marie-Pierre Laffitte & Fabienne Le Bars, Reliures royales de la Renaissance, Paris, 1999. Macchi states; 10 known examples in public libraries and 1 in the private collection of M. Wittock: the list been compiled by Amédée Boinet, Reliures à emblèmes macabres, p. 341-343 1) Bibliothèque du Louvre, former Motteley collection (Alfred Franklin, Les Anciennes Bibliothèques de Paris, 1870, p. 149), destroyed during the Louvre Library fire); 2) Mazarine Library, Paris (L.-M. Michon, La reliure française, pl. XXIX); 3) Lyons Library (Exposition de reliures, n. 76, pl. XVIII); 4) Angers Library; 5) Former collection Pouiller- Ketele (Bruxelles sale, 15-17 may 1924, n. 92); 6) Walters art Gallery (L. Gruel, Manuel historique, II, 1905, p. 91); 7) Former collection George Nestle-John (J. Baer, Frankfurt am Main, 1931, n. 92, pl. 10); 8) National Library, Paris, Rotschild collection (Bibliothèque nationale de France, Paris, 80 reliures françaises, p. 3, n. 38; É. Picot, Catalogue, I, p. 2, n. 3). A. Hobson listed two more, one in the Alençon Library (see Patrimoine des bibliothèques de France. Un guide des régions, volume 9, p. 23 too) and the other sold as lot 289 in the Phillipps sale at Sotheby's, 17 june 1935. They were produced c. 1585, very probably in Clovis Eve, royal binder, workshop. (P. Culot, La reliure en France, p. 150-151, n. 63). | |||
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