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Regalium Franciae libri duo.
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Degrassalius, Carolus.
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Regalium Franciae libri duo.
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Style: Lozenge or diamond|Floral|Panel design; Caption: Upper cover; Colour: Black; Edge: Red|Painted
Date Binding: 16c
Medium Decorative Technique: Blocked in blind|Blocked in silver; Cover Material: Goatskin (includes morocco, turkey etc)
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Shelfmark: Davis331
Place of creation Binding: France
Object history Text: 1538; Lyon; Unspecified
Notes Bound in Paris, c. 1540. Edges red, painted in gold with a pattern of leaves and fleurons (outlined in black). Traces of 2 pairs of ties. Macchi states; c. 1540-1550. Lawrence A. Miller has attributed this binding to Etienne Roffet, See http://www.cyclopaedia.org/virtual/bookbinding.html (scroll down).
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See H M Nixon, Sixteenth Century gold tooled bindings in the Pierpont Morgan Library, n7. See M M Foot, The Henry Davis Gift, Vol. III, London, 2010 p59. Marie Pierre Lafitte, Reliures royales, Paris, 2001;

Lafitte & Fabienne Le Bars, Reliures royales de la Renaissance, Paris, 1999 pl.9
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