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| Keywords: -Breviary for the use of Toledo- Manuscript on parchment - Upper cover (Davis656).jpg Style Mudejar Moorish inspired geometric; Caption Upper cover; Colour Brown; Edge Unspecified exhibition history Decorative Technique Painted; Cover Material Goatskin includes morocco turkey etc Upper cover Macchi states; Matilde Lopez Serrano suggests 4 groups of Mudejar binding - 1st group Moslem type with a large interlace star or hexagonal motifs interlaced and repeated; - 2nd group central gothic l motifs quadrilobed tools crosses lozenges escutcheons These can be repeated several times; - 3rd group no central motif but all over decoration in a large rectangle surrounded by one or more borders - 4th group later XV th century end - XVI th century beginning characterised by one or two large central circles decorated with small tools and a frame According to Serrano every group owes its characteristics more to the particular workshop than to its date As general rule however the oldest bindings depict squares and rectangles and few borders; those with geometrical motifs were produced later during the XV th or XVI th century This style derived from gothic friezes combined with other influences from the Islamic world originated and developed during the Reconquista period XI th -XV th century is the most characteristic of Spain It was carried out by artists called mudejares those who remained mainly Moorish or islamised Jewish people remained in Castille after the Christian reconquest In the reconquered towns Arab workers who continued to practice their high level skills eg leather tanning the Spanish-Moslem technique resulted in smooth and brilliant skins better adapted to tooling than rough cow- pig- stagskins used in Europe In all its forms the mudejar decoration presents purely abstract schemes according to Islamic rules M López Serrano La encuadernación española; F Macchi - L Macchi Il Dizionario illustrato p 321-322; R Miquel y Planas Restauración del Arte hispano-árabe p 16-21 object history Text late 15c; Toledo; Unspecified object type Cc-zero place of creation Binding Spain place of discovery Unspecified British Library image http //www bl uk/catalogues/bookbindings/LargeImage aspx RecordId 020-000004648 ImageId ImageId 41929 Copyright BL Breviary for the use of Toledo Manuscript on parchment Uploaded with GWToolset Breviary for the use of Toledo Manuscript on parchment - Upper cover Davis656 http //www webarchive org uk/bldatasets/bindings/6504_4 jpg Bookbinding 15th-century bookbinding British Library Bookbindings | ||||
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