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Epistolae Graecae
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Estienne, Gommar
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Epistolae Graecae
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Style: Unspecified; Caption: Spine; Colour: Brown; Edge: Unspecified
Date Binding: 16c
Medium Decorative Technique: Tooled in gold; Cover Material: Goatskin (includes morocco, turkey etc)
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Shelfmark: Davis379
Place of creation Binding: France
Object history Text: 1499; Venice; Fugger, Marx (1529-1597)
Notes 2 pairs of clasps. Smooth spine. c. 1550, Paris, greek style binding bound for Marcus Fugger. Once attributed to Claude de Picques. See M M Foot, The Henry Davis Gift, vol I, London, 1978, pp. 170-182. The volume has an ownership stamp which has been defaced. It belonged to the Oettingen Wallerstein family, who sold part of their library (including some of the books belonging to Fugger) through the book dealers Karl & Faber. This book was purchased by Lucius Wilmerding and subsequently by Henry Davis.
References A R A Hobson, Humanists and Bookbinders, Cambridge 1989, p210. M M Foot, Studies in the History of Bookbinding, Aldershot, 1993, p. 358, fig. 60.3.a; P. Marks, The British Library guide to bookbinding, p. 36, fig. 24. A vellum ms (shelfmark Ms. 8511) bound with a similar design for J. Grolier is in the Arsenal Library. (Bibliothèque nationale de France, Paris, Trésors de la bibliothèque de l'Arsenal, p. 81-82, n. 155- Fr. Calot - L.-M. Michon - M. Angoulvent, L'art du livre en France, p. 243) as well as another example produced for Thomas Mahieu is listed by G.D. Hobson, Maioli, Canevari and others, p. 45, 69-70, pl. 52, n. XIV, on Biblia, Libri Moysi quinque, Paris, R. Stephanus, 1541; reproduced in H. S. Slater, How to Collect Books, p. 148. 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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