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Exemplaria literarum.
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Pecking Crow Binder
Author
Francois I.
Title
Exemplaria literarum.
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Style: Centrepiece|Circle|Panel design; Caption: Upper cover; Colour: Brown; Edge: Gilt & gauffered
Date Binding: 16c
Medium Decorative Technique: Tooled in blind|Tooled in gold|Stained; Cover Material: Calf
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Shelfmark: Davis369
Place of creation Binding: France
Object history Text: 1537; Paris; Unspecified
Notes Bound in Paris by the Pecking Crow Binder, c. 1537-1540. Edges gilt and gauffered with curving lines. [Macchi states; first century, Paris, Italianate style (Bibliothèque nationale de France, Paris, 80 reliures françaises, p. 2, n. 24, J. de Sauzay coat-of-arms; J. Guignard, Premières reliures parisiennes à décor doré, p. 229-249; F. Macchi - L. Macchi, Il Dizionario illustrato della legatura, p. 136; J. Toulet, Les reliures, p. 533 - see C.108.tt.2., C.130.e.4., Davis 334, Davis 335, Davis 366, Davis 369). Similar to one binding of Étienne Roffet (M.-P. Laffitte - F. Le Bars, Reliures royales de la Renaissance, p. 51, n. 10). The elaborate and fine cartouche orient towards an important atelier (see Autographes, miniatures, beaux livres anciens et modernes, p. 35, n. 64, pl. XXXII and XXXIII on text Orlando Furioso di Messere Lodovico Ariosto nobile Ferrarese, Venezia, Benedetto de Bendonis, 1537 too).]
References See M M Foot, The Henry Davis Gift, Vol. III, London, 2010.
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