File:Historia naturalis -Italian- - Upper cover (ic19693).jpg
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| Historia naturalis [Italian] | ||||
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| Artist |
Picques, Claude |
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| Author |
Plinius Secundus, Gaius |
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| Title |
Historia naturalis [Italian] |
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| Description |
Style: Interlacing ribbon/strapwork|Mottoes; Caption: Upper cover; Colour: Brown; Edge: Unspecified |
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| Date | Binding: 16c | |||
| Medium | Decorative Technique: Tooled in gold; Cover Material: Goatskin (includes morocco, turkey etc) | |||
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Shelfmark: ic19693 |
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| Place of creation | Binding: France | |||
| Object history | Text: 1476; Venice; Grolier, Jean (1479-1565) | |||
| Notes | Bequeathed by C M Cracherode. Lawrence A. Miller's http://www.cyclopaedia.org relieur-du-roi pages includes enlargements of tools used by the royal workshops, suggesting Jean Picard. | |||
| References |
See H M Nixon, Bookbindings from the Library of Jean Grolier, London, 1965, n. 70. M M Foot, The Henry Davis Gift, vol II, London, 1978 pp170-182. Annie Parent Charon, Nouveaux documents sure les reliures parisiens du XVI siecle in Revue Francaise d'histoire du livre, no 35, 1982, pp389-408. |
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