File:De arte supputandi libri quattuor. - Upper cover (Davis384).jpg
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[edit]Cuthbert Tunstall: De arte supputandi libri quattuor. ( ) | ||||||||||||||||||
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De arte supputandi libri quattuor. |
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Style: Medallion or plaquette|Panel design; Caption: Upper cover; Colour: Brown; Edge: Plain |
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Date | Binding: 16c | |||||||||||||||||
Medium | Decorative Technique: Tooled in blind|Tooled in gold; Cover Material: Calf | |||||||||||||||||
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Shelfmark: Davis384 |
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Place of creation | Binding: France | |||||||||||||||||
Object history | Text: 1538; Paris; Unspecified | |||||||||||||||||
Notes | Bound in Paris in the 1540s. With a medallion head in the centre of both covers, showing Mars on the upper cover and Lucretia on the lower cover. Rebound with original covers and spine strip retained. [Macchi states. Shelfmark C.108.g.8. shows the head and shoulders of a bearded man (Tarquin) wearing a fashionable head within a medallion too. Only three English bindings produced for Thomas Wotton are decorated with a similar medallion (M. Breslauer Inc., Catalogue 111, p. 86-89). An example is owned by the Cambridge University Library (Geoffrey Dudley Hobson, Bindings in Cambridge libraries, p. 68-69, pl. XXIII B, on The Lamentation of a Synner, London, Whitchurch, 1547 et alia; shelfmark Syn 8.54.100. Small round medaillon heads were popular on French and English bindings. | |||||||||||||||||
References | See Mirjam M Foot, The Henry Davis Gift, Vol. III, London, 2010. | |||||||||||||||||
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