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Opera
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Malenfant, Jacques, binder to
Author
Cicero, Marcus Tullus
Title
Opera
Description
Style: Fanfare; Caption: Upper cover; Colour: Brown; Edge: Gilt
Date Binding: 16c
Medium Decorative Technique: Tooled in gold; Cover Material: Goatskin (includes morocco, turkey etc)
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Shelfmark: Davis409
Place of creation Binding: France
Object history Text: 1566; Paris; Cracherode, Clayton Mordaunt (1730-1799)|L'Aubespine family
Notes For other French 16c bindings see Marie-Pierre Laffitte & Fabienne Le Bars, Reliures royales de la Renaissance, Paris, 1999. M M Foot has identified this binder as Claude Picques The Henry Davis Gift vol I, London, 1978, p156-. See Isabelle de Conihout & Pascal Ract-Madoux "Ni Grolier, ni Mahieu: Laubespine" in Bulletin du bibliophile n.1 2004, p66. With the initials of Cracherode and the date 1774. With the ink ms note 5 between two parallel lines.
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.
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