Keywords: Historia Augusta, seu Vitae Romanorum Caesarum - Upper cover (Davis643).jpg Style Panel design; Caption Upper cover; Colour Brown; Edge Unspecified exhibition history Decorative Technique Tooled in gold; Cover Material Calf With the emblem of the monastery of Ettal on the upper cover and the arms of Abbot Placidus Seitz on the lower cover Traces of 2 pairs of clasps Comb-marbled pastedowns The coat of arms corresponds to armorial number 3 the largest of the armorials listed in P Bonifaz Schmalzl Ettaler Einbandkunst in Festschrift zum Ettaler Doppeljubiläum p 189 Wappensupralibros von Abt Placidus Seit Größe size 62 x 52 mm 3 It probably was in use some time after 1730 but it isn't dated and the books aren't a reliable source of dating The armorial features a new design of Seiz's coat of arms but it is nearly identical with number 2 which may mean 3 was used for larger volumes and 2 for smaller ones Thanks to Randall Herz for the preceeding information Macchi states; Bound c 1710-1730 in Ettal by Gregor Kühne object history Text 1698; Augsburg and Dillingen; Seitz Placidus Abbot of Ettal Monastery d 1736 object type Cc-zero place of creation Binding Germany place of discovery See M M Foot The Henry Davis Gift vol II London 1983 Macchi has a further example on Epistola sive exempla in septem capitalivm vitiorvm detestationem a Georgio Stengelio Ingolstadij apud Gregorium Haenlinum 1650 205x156x32 mm Provenance Bandini Buti collection Milan See also M v Arnim Einbandkunst n 102 on François Antoine Pomey Pantheum mythicum seu fabulosa deorum historia Frankfurt Andrea Otto 1713; Martin Breslauer Inc Catalogue 110 p 222-223 n 130 on Famianus S J Strada De bello Belgico decades duae ad annum 1678 continuatae Frankfurt J M Schönwetter 1699; W Brunner Der Ettaler Bucheinband p 32-46; B Schmalzl Ettaler Einbandkunst p 171-206; Victoria and Albert Museum Bookbindings p 45 98 n 49 British Library image http //www bl uk/catalogues/bookbindings/LargeImage aspx RecordId 020-000004622 ImageId ImageId 41916 Copyright BL Historia Augusta seu Vitae Romanorum Caesarum Uploaded with GWToolset Historia Augusta seu Vitae Romanorum Caesarum - Upper cover Davis643 http //www webarchive org uk/bldatasets/bindings/6491_4 jpg Bookbinding 18th-century bookbinding British Library Bookbindings |