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| Keywords: Centum sententiae ad Syrum fratrem. Libri xiiii de rebus coelestis. Liber etiam de luna imperfectus. - Upper cover (Davis368).jpg Style Armorial Panel design; Caption Upper cover; Colour Brown; Edge Plain Ink ms note exhibition history Decorative Technique Tooled in blind Tooled in gold; Cover Material Calf Bound in Lyon for Benoit Le Court c 1540-1550 Wooden boards Floral border blind tooled coat of arms of Benoit le Court tooled in gold Macchi states; c 1550 Lyon bound for Benoît Le Court c 1500-1565 prominent public character in Lyons in the Forties and Fifties The books of his extensive library all bear the coat-of-arms usually tooled in silver About 30 known examples thereof 4 in the library of Lyons 1 in the Vienna national Library T Gottlieb KK Hofbibliothek Bucheinbände pl 38a 1 in the Milanese Trivulziana Library 5 in the Mazarine Library Paris Bibliothèque Mazarine Paris Catalogue des reliures françaises n 59 367 387 644 bis 601 1 in the National Library Paris J Toulet L'école lyonnaise de reliure p 143 fig 133 1 in the Vichy Municipal Library Jean Toulet L'école lyonnaise de reliure p 143 fig 132 Four others are listed in Belin's catalogue Riches reliures n 416-419 see Jean Toulet L'école lyonnaise de reliure p 143 fig 135 Benoît le Court's bindings are of particular interest as undoubted Lyonnese covers dating about 1540-1550 They demonstrate how very different a real Lyonnese binding of that time was from the elegant productions with coloured mosaics and interlaced strapwork known as Lyonnese manufacturings but probably Parisians E Ph Goldschmidt Gothic and Renaissance bookbindings vol I Text 2 Catalogue raisonné p 278-279 n 202 203 See Librairie Sourget Chartres Manuscrits enluminés et livres précieux Catalogue XVII p 94-98 n 24 on Le jardin de plaisance et fleur rethorique Paris Antoine Vérard 1502; Livres des XVe XVIe siècles dans leurs reliures originales p 127 n 342 pl 36 on Speroni Dialoghi Venice 1543 too 20 bindings were produced for this bibliophile by the workshop called atelier au compas D Gid Un atelier Lyonnais vers 1550 p 117-131 object history Text 1519; Venice; Benoit Le Court of Lyons 1500-1566 object type Cc-zero place of creation Binding France place of discovery See M M Foot The Henry Davis Gift Vol III London 2010 British Library image http //www bl uk/catalogues/bookbindings/LargeImage aspx RecordId 020-000003952 ImageId ImageId 41581 Copyright BL Centum sententiae ad Syrum fratrem Libri xiiii de rebus coelestis Liber etiam de luna imperfectus Uploaded with GWToolset Centum sententiae ad Syrum fratrem Libri xiiii de rebus coelestis Liber etiam de luna imperfectus - Upper cover Davis368 http //www webarchive org uk/bldatasets/bindings/6096_4 jpg Bookbinding 16th-century bookbinding British Library Bookbindings | ||||
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