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Keywords: Epistolae Graecae - Lower cover (Davis379).jpg Style Greek style alla greca Interlacing ribbon/strapwork; Caption Lower cover; Colour Brown; Edge Gilt and gauffered exhibition history Decorative Technique Onlaid Tooled in gold; Cover Material Goatskin includes morocco turkey etc 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 object history Text 1499; Venice; Fugger Marx 1529-1597 object type Cc-zero place of creation Binding France place of discovery 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 British Library image http //www bl uk/catalogues/bookbindings/LargeImage aspx RecordId 020-000011746 ImageId ImageId 45478 Copyright BL Epistolae Graecae Uploaded with GWToolset Epistolae Graecae - Lower cover Davis379 http //www webarchive org uk/bldatasets/bindings/12688_3 jpg Bookbinding 16th-century bookbinding British Library Bookbindings
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