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Le livre de statuts
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Atelier de Fontainebleu
Author
[St Michel, Order of]
Title
Le livre de statuts
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Style: Armorial|Bow (archery)|Quiver|Panel design; Caption: Upper cover; Colour: Brown; Edge: Gilt
Date Binding: 16c
Medium Decorative Technique: Tooled in gold|Tooled in blind; Cover Material: Calf
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Shelfmark: Davis378
Place of creation Binding: France
Object history Text: [c.1550]; [Paris]; Henri II, King of France (1519-1559)
Notes Printed on vellum. c. 1550, Paris, bound by the Atelier de Fontainebleu binder who may have been Jean Picard, Gommar Estienne or Claude de Picques (P. Culot, La reliure en France, p. 99, n. 40). See explanation in Mirjam M Foot, The Henry Davis Gift III, p.7 and pp.96-97. Made for a member of the Order of St Michel.
References M M Foot, The Henry Davis Gift, vol I, London, 1978, pp170-182. Annie Parent Charon, Nouveaux documents sure les reliures parisiens du XVI siecle in Revue Francaise d'histoire du livre, no 35, 1982, pp389-408. For other French 16c bindings see Marie-Pierre Laffitte & Fabienne Le Bars, Reliures royales de la Renaissance, Paris, 1999.
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