File:La commedia - Upper cover (Davis502).jpg

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La commedia
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Dante
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La commedia
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Style: Interlacing ribbon/strapwork|Lettered cover, eg intitals, titles; Caption: Upper cover; Colour: White / cream; Edge: Gilt, gauffered and painted
Date Binding: 16c
Medium Decorative Technique: Painted; Cover Material: Leather (unspecified)
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Shelfmark: Davis502
Place of creation Binding: France
Object history Text: 1544; Venice; Henri II, King of France (1519-1559)
Notes Ink ms notes upper flyleaf. Upper paste down shows traces of metal label attachments. Probably made for Diane de Poitiers, Henri's mistress. See W. S. Brassington, Historic bindings in the Bodleian Library, p. 18-19, pl. IX on Architecture ou art de bien bastir du Marc Vitruve Pollion autheur romain antique, Paris, Jacques Gazcan, 1547, shelfmark Douce V Subtus I; H. M. Nixon, Sixteenth century gold-tooled bookbindings, p. 140-144, n. 36; p. 144-148, n. 37; Fac-similes of old book binding on Bartholomaei Camerarii Beneventani de Praedestinatione. Dialogi, Parisiis, Ex typographia Matthaei Davidiis, 1536 (no pages); P. Needham, Twelve centuries, p. 216-219, n. 68 too. Binding reproduced in La bibliothèque de feu Edouard Rahir, Première partie, p. 15, n. 66. For similar bindings, see Bibliothèque nationale de France, Paris, Revue de la Bibliopthèque nationale, n. 5, Septembre 1982, p. 44, fig. 9 on Psalterium Daviticum materna lingua expositum, Paris, Antoine et Barthélemy Vérard (about 1512-1515), shelfmark Rés. p.A. 50.; E. Diehl, Bookbinding, I, pl. 36. For other bindings executed for D. de Poitiers see J. Porcher, Les livres de Diane de Poitiers, p. 78-89; A collection of facsimiles, n 19,20. For other French 16c bindings see Marie-Pierre Laffitte & Fabienne Le Bars, Reliures royales de la Renaissance, Paris, 1999
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