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Works [Greek]
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Euripides
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Works [Greek]
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Style: Centre and cornerpiece|Semis, background of small tools; Caption: Upper cover; Colour: Brown; Edge: Unspecified
Date Binding: 16c
Medium Decorative Technique: Tooled in gold; Cover Material: Goatskin (includes morocco, turkey etc)
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Shelfmark: c19f4
Place of creation Binding: France
Object history Text: 1503; Venice; Unspecified
Notes For other French 16c bindings see Marie-Pierre Laffitte & Fabienne Le Bars, Reliures royales de la Renaissance, Paris, 1999. XVI th mid century, France, au semé and corner and centerpiece. Border à l'ancienne. The Vercelli (Piedmont) Civic Library keeps a French Renaissance binding on text Aristoteles & Cicero, Miscellanea, Paris, 1544-1557, provided with an identical cartouche, including its binding date 1557, as indicated on its middle upper cover, provided withe the volume's ownership "Josephus Lausa" too, while on the lower, the motto "Quaerendi pulchra/turpis est defatigatio" is to be found (F. Malaguzzi, De libris compactis. Legature di pregio in Piemonte. Il Vercellese, p. 83, pl. XXX, tav. 50).
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