File:Epistolae Graecae - Lower cover (Davis379).jpg
Original file (1,256 × 1,536 pixels, file size: 372 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg)
Captions
Summary
[edit]Epistolae Graecae | ||||
---|---|---|---|---|
Artist |
Estienne, Gommar |
|||
Author |
Unspecified |
|||
Title |
Epistolae Graecae |
|||
Description |
Style: Greek style (alla greca)|Interlacing ribbon/strapwork; Caption: Lower cover; Colour: Brown; Edge: Gilt and gauffered |
|||
Date | Binding: 16c | |||
Medium | Decorative Technique: Onlaid|Tooled in gold; Cover Material: Goatskin (includes morocco, turkey etc) | |||
Accession number |
Shelfmark: Davis379 |
|||
Place of creation | Binding: France | |||
Object history | Text: 1499; Venice; Fugger, Marx (1529-1597) | |||
Notes | 2 pairs of clasps. Smooth spine. c. 1550, Paris, greek style binding bound for Marcus Fugger. Once attributed to Claude de Picques. See M M Foot, The Henry Davis Gift, vol I, London, 1978, pp. 170-182. The volume has an ownership stamp which has been defaced. It belonged to the Oettingen Wallerstein family, who sold part of their library (including some of the books belonging to Fugger) through the book dealers Karl & Faber. This book was purchased by Lucius Wilmerding and subsequently by Henry Davis. | |||
References | A R A Hobson, Humanists and Bookbinders, Cambridge 1989, p210. M M Foot, Studies in the History of Bookbinding, Aldershot, 1993, p. 358, fig. 60.3.a; P. Marks, The British Library guide to bookbinding, p. 36, fig. 24. A vellum ms (shelfmark Ms. 8511) bound with a similar design for J. Grolier is in the Arsenal Library. (Bibliothèque nationale de France, Paris, Trésors de la bibliothèque de l'Arsenal, p. 81-82, n. 155- Fr. Calot - L.-M. Michon - M. Angoulvent, L'art du livre en France, p. 243) as well as another example produced for Thomas Mahieu is listed by G.D. Hobson, Maioli, Canevari and others, p. 45, 69-70, pl. 52, n. XIV, on Biblia, Libri Moysi quinque, Paris, R. Stephanus, 1541; reproduced in H. S. Slater, How to Collect Books, p. 148. Annie Parent Charon, Nouveaux documents sure les reliures parisiens du XVI siecle in Revue Francaise d'histoire du livre, no 35, 1982, pp389-408. | |||
Source/Photographer |
|
|||
Permission (Reusing this file) |
|
File history
Click on a date/time to view the file as it appeared at that time.
Date/Time | Thumbnail | Dimensions | User | Comment | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
current | 15:51, 10 September 2015 | 1,256 × 1,536 (372 KB) | DimitraCharalampidou (talk | contribs) | GWToolset: Creating mediafile for DimitraCharalampidou. Part of the British Library's Digitised Bookbindings Collection |
You cannot overwrite this file.
File usage on Commons
The following page uses this file:
Metadata
This file contains additional information such as Exif metadata which may have been added by the digital camera, scanner, or software program used to create or digitize it. If the file has been modified from its original state, some details such as the timestamp may not fully reflect those of the original file. The timestamp is only as accurate as the clock in the camera, and it may be completely wrong.
JPEG file comment | LEAD Technologies Inc. V1.01 |
---|