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| Shelfmark |
Davis450 |
| Held By |
BL |
| Country |
France |
| Period |
16c |
| Cover Material |
Goatskin (includes morocco, turkey etc) |
| Decorative Technique |
Tooled in gold |
| Style |
All over design; Armorial |
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| Owner |
Duodo, Pietro |
| Author |
Ambrosius |
| Title |
Officorum libri III |
| Place of Publication |
Paris |
| Date of Publication |
1583 |
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| Notes |
Federico Macchi writes; 133 examples are recorded, 5 of which are held at the Musée Condé (Chantilly, France). The skin colour is different according to the text subject. Theology, philosphy, law and history were bound in red morocco, medicine and botany; in lemon morocco, literature in olive morocco. With their small size in 12mo, they represent very likely a travelling library, mostly with a humanistic content. (One hundred and seventy-six historic and artistic book-bindings, p. 61, on Officium beatae Mariae Virginis, Paris, Ioann. Mettayer, & P. L'Huiller, 1597; Victoria and Albert Museum, London, A picture book of bookbindings, part II, pl. I, c. 1572, shelfmark L2240-1913). This decoration was adopted again in France and England too, in form of retropective style or pastiche by the workshops Thibaron-Joly (1863-75) and Charles Lewis (Barber - Rogers) (active from 1786 until 1836). See L. Bouland, Livres aux armes de Pierre Duodo, p. 66-80; Breslauer M. Inc., Catalogue 110, p. 304-305, n. 195; W. Y. Fletcher, Bookbinding in England and in France, p. 33, fig. 11 on C. Jul. Caesaris Commentarii, Paris, 1564; M. Foot, The History of Bookbinding as a mirror of society, fig. 71; La collection Dutuit, p. 147, n. 385 on L. Annaei Senecae cordubensis, Tragoediae, Lugduni, apud Antonium de Harsy, 1589; H. B. Wheatley, Les reliures remarquables du Musée Britannnique p. 80-81, pl. XXXVI on Cl. Claudianus, Theod. Pulmanni Craneburgii diligentia & fide restitutus, Antverpiae, officina Plantiniana , 1591. |
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