File:-Sir Julius Caesar's travelling library, individual parchment covered books and container, made to resemble a leather bound book. A restricted item.- - Lower cover and spine (c20f15-58).jpg

From Wikimedia Commons, the free media repository
Jump to navigation Jump to search

Original file ‎(801 × 1,536 pixels, file size: 172 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg)

Captions

Captions

Add a one-line explanation of what this file represents

Summary[edit]

[Sir Julius Caesar's travelling library, individual parchment covered books and container, made to resemble a leather bound book. A restricted item.]
Artist
Unspecified
Author
Unspecified
Title
[Sir Julius Caesar's travelling library, individual parchment covered books and container, made to resemble a leather bound book. A restricted item.]
Description
Style: Centre and cornerpiece made of small tools; Caption: Lower cover and spine; Colour: Green; Edge: Gilt, gauffered and painted
Date Binding: 17c
Medium Decorative Technique: Tooled in gold; Cover Material: Goatskin (includes morocco, turkey etc)
Accession number
Shelfmark: c20f15-58
Place of creation Binding: England
Object history Text: 17c; Unspecified; Unspecified
Notes Sir Julius Caesar's Travelling Library. The contents of the box (which is made to look like a book) are small gold tooled vellum editions of the classics etc and can be called up to the Rare Books & Music Reading Room. The box which contains them is fragile and cannot be issued.
References See H M Nixon and M M Foot, The History of Decorated Bookbinding in England, Oxford, 1992, p. 49.
Source/Photographer
This file has been provided by the British Library from its digital collections. It is also made available on a British Library website.


This tag does not indicate the copyright status of the attached work. A normal copyright tag is still required. See Commons:Licensing.

বাংলা | Deutsch | English | español | euskara | français | galego | hrvatski | italiano | 日本語 | македонски | polski | русский | українська | 中文 | +/−

Permission
(Reusing this file)
Creative Commons CC-Zero This file is made available under the Creative Commons CC0 1.0 Universal Public Domain Dedication.
The person who associated a work with this deed has dedicated the work to the public domain by waiving all of their rights to the work worldwide under copyright law, including all related and neighboring rights, to the extent allowed by law. You can copy, modify, distribute and perform the work, even for commercial purposes, all without asking permission.

File history

Click on a date/time to view the file as it appeared at that time.

Date/TimeThumbnailDimensionsUserComment
current20:15, 10 September 2015Thumbnail for version as of 20:15, 10 September 2015801 × 1,536 (172 KB)DimitraCharalampidou (talk | contribs)GWToolset: Creating mediafile for DimitraCharalampidou. Part of the British Library's Digitised Bookbindings Collection

You cannot overwrite this file.

Metadata

This file contains additional information such as Exif metadata which may have been added by the digital camera, scanner, or software program used to create or digitize it. If the file has been modified from its original state, some details such as the timestamp may not fully reflect those of the original file. The timestamp is only as accurate as the clock in the camera, and it may be completely wrong.

Retrieved from "https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=File:-Sir_Julius_Caesar%27s_travelling_library,_individual_parchment_covered_books_and_container,_made_to_resemble_a_leather_bound_book._A_restricted_item.-_-_Lower_cover_and_spine_(c20f15-58).jpg&oldid=734607164"