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Image Caption Back cover, B2569.5
General Description An English binding with silver center plate and monogram, ca Red goatskin over pasteboards with gilt decoration. Silver clasps, corner, and center plates.
Country / Style England
Period ca. 1690
Call Number B2569.5
Provenance "William Smith his book Oct 19, 1725"; purchased in 1958 from F. Edwards, London.
Title Bible. O.T. Psalms. English. The psalter or Psalms of David, after the translation of the great bible, pointed as they are to be sung or said in churches. With the addition of morning and evening prayer.
Created / Published London : printed by J. M[acock] for the Company of Stationers, anno Dom
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Technical Description Sewn on five raised cords. A made marbled endpaper plus four plain with marbled pastedowns. Rounded and backed spine. Gilt edges. Headband worked with linen thread over a cane core (tailband missing). Lap corners.
Dimensions 152 x 92 x 20 mm.
Decorative Description A center panel and outer border formed by a two-line fillet. Floral cornerpieces on the inside of the panel with floral tool at angles. Edges of boards tooled with a floral roll. Paneled spine with a six-petal rosette in each compartment.
Other Details The floral tool at the angles was used on a binding attributed to the "Center Rectangle Binder" in Maggs, Part I, no. 84. FURNITURE: Quarter round silver corner plates and spade-shaped catch and hinge plates with engraving resembling a cat's tooth. Silver center plates bear an engraved monogram, "J W P. - Hasps are missing but were hinged from the upper cover.
Literature Folger 10:13 (Folger Shakespeare Library, Fine and historic bookbindings from the Folger Shakespeare Library, New York, 1992).
Binding Terms (RBMS) Bosses -- England -- 17th century.
Binding Terms (RBMS) Clasps -- England -- 17th century.
Binding Terms (RBMS) Fillet tools -- England -- 17th century.
Binding Terms (RBMS) Furniture -- England -- 17th century.
Binding Terms (RBMS) Goatskin bindings -- England -- 17th century.
Binding Terms (RBMS) Gold tooled bindings -- England -- 17th century.
Binding Terms (RBMS) Leather bindings -- England -- 17th century.
Binding Terms (RBMS) Raised bands -- England -- 17th century.

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Image Caption Back cover, BR336 T4 G Cage.
General Description A mid-16th century German or Austrian binding of brown calfskin over wooden boards with blind tooled decoration.
Country / Style Germany?
Country / Style Austria?
Call Number BR336 T4 G Cage
Provenance Augustin Disculi, Vienna, inscription on title page; G. von Camuzi, Dirmstein (Rhineland), printed label; Von K6th family, stamp; purchased in 1959 from Van Gendt, The Netherlands, List 17:108.
Author Melanchthon, Philipp.
Title Die Haubtartickel und Furnemesten Punct der Gantzen Hayligen Schrift.
Created / Published Augsburg, 1522
Technical Description Sewn on three raised double cords. Evidence of single front endpaper, which had been folded in a hook guard around the first section, and remains of a pastedown. The back endpaper is intact; the pastedown has been trimmed out on the board. Rounded spine, with naturally formed backing, lined with vellum between the sewing supports. Remains of fore-edge leather tabs throughout text. Pink and natural linen thread endbands, worked over a tawed core(?). Boards given slight inside bevel on three edges with an exterior bevel at the joint. Recesses have been cut on the lower board to receive hasp straps (now missing); two small scoops on the fore-edge of the upper board were cut for the catch plates (also missing). Head- and tailcaps slit to accommodate endbands. Lapmitered corners. Evidence of a central boss and four edge guard corner bosses on both boards.
Dimensions 207 x 166 x 61 mm
Decorative Description Blind tooling to a border and panel scheme, using a three-line fillet and four rolls. The first roll, a bold vase of flowers. The second, a roll cut with a horn, a drum, and a stylized vase of flowers, of a type codified by Oldham as "musical instruments" roll. The third roll, a floral design. And the fourth, a smaller version of the "musical instruments" roll as described above. The four compartments of the spine are decorated with a Rautent-anke, fleurons, and three-line pallet work.
Other Details Although Haebler illustrates a roll of floral devices with a drum, and lists others used in central Europe from c. 1520, the two rolls used here include a horn and are much closer stylistically to those in Gibson and Oldham which Ker has proven from manuscript pastedowns were used on books bound in Oxford c The structure of this binding, however, as well as the book's place of printing and provenance, strongly suggest central European work.
Literature For "musical instruments" rolls, see Gibson, Early Oxford Bindings, p. 29, pl. XXXVII; Oldham, Blind-stamped, p. 24, pl. LVI. For central European ornamental rolls with "Trommel," see Haebler, p. 412, pl. IV, no. 5; Ker, Pastedowns, p. 224.
Literature Folger 2:2 (Folger Shakespeare Library, Fine and historic bookbindings from the Folger Shakespeare Library, New York, 1992).
Binding Terms (RBMS) Blind tooled bindings -- Austria -- 16th century.
Binding Terms (RBMS) Blind tooled bindings -- Germany -- 16th century.
Binding Terms (RBMS) Bosses -- Austria -- 16th century.
Binding Terms (RBMS) Bosses -- Germany -- 16th century.
Binding Terms (RBMS) Calf bindings -- Austria -- 16th century.
Binding Terms (RBMS) Calf bindings -- Germany -- 16th century.
Binding Terms (RBMS) Clasps -- Austria -- 16th century.
Binding Terms (RBMS) Clasps -- Germany -- 16th century.
Binding Terms (RBMS) Fillet tools -- Austria -- 16th century.
Binding Terms (RBMS) Fillet tools -- Germany -- 16th century.
Binding Terms (RBMS) Furniture -- Austria -- 16th century.
Binding Terms (RBMS) Furniture -- Germany -- 16th century.
Binding Terms (RBMS) Leather bindings -- Austria -- 16th century.
Binding Terms (RBMS) Leather bindings -- Germany -- 16th century.
Binding Terms (RBMS) Raised bands -- Austria -- 16th century.
Binding Terms (RBMS) Raised bands -- Germany -- 16th century.

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Image Caption Spine and front cover, BR336 T4 G Cage.
General Description A mid-16th century German or Austrian binding of brown calfskin over wooden boards with blind tooled decoration.
Country / Style Germany?
Country / Style Austria?
Call Number BR336 T4 G Cage
Provenance Augustin Disculi, Vienna, inscription on title page; G. von Camuzi, Dirmstein (Rhineland), printed label; Von K6th family, stamp; purchased in 1959 from Van Gendt, The Netherlands, List 17:108.
Author Melanchthon, Philipp.
Title Die Haubtartickel und Furnemesten Punct der Gantzen Hayligen Schrift.
Created / Published Augsburg, 1522
Technical Description Sewn on three raised double cords. Evidence of single front endpaper, which had been folded in a hook guard around the first section, and remains of a pastedown. The back endpaper is intact; the pastedown has been trimmed out on the board. Rounded spine, with naturally formed backing, lined with vellum between the sewing supports. Remains of fore-edge leather tabs throughout text. Pink and natural linen thread endbands, worked over a tawed core(?). Boards given slight inside bevel on three edges with an exterior bevel at the joint. Recesses have been cut on the lower board to receive hasp straps (now missing); two small scoops on the fore-edge of the upper board were cut for the catch plates (also missing). Head- and tailcaps slit to accommodate endbands. Lapmitered corners. Evidence of a central boss and four edge guard corner bosses on both boards.
Dimensions 207 x 166 x 61 mm
Decorative Description Blind tooling to a border and panel scheme, using a three-line fillet and four rolls. The first roll, a bold vase of flowers. The second, a roll cut with a horn, a drum, and a stylized vase of flowers, of a type codified by Oldham as "musical instruments" roll. The third roll, a floral design. And the fourth, a smaller version of the "musical instruments" roll as described above. The four compartments of the spine are decorated with a Rautent-anke, fleurons, and three-line pallet work.
Other Details Although Haebler illustrates a roll of floral devices with a drum, and lists others used in central Europe from c. 1520, the two rolls used here include a horn and are much closer stylistically to those in Gibson and Oldham which Ker has proven from manuscript pastedowns were used on books bound in Oxford c The structure of this binding, however, as well as the book's place of printing and provenance, strongly suggest central European work.
Literature For "musical instruments" rolls, see Gibson, Early Oxford Bindings, p. 29, pl. XXXVII; Oldham, Blind-stamped, p. 24, pl. LVI. For central European ornamental rolls with "Trommel," see Haebler, p. 412, pl. IV, no. 5; Ker, Pastedowns, p. 224.
Literature Folger 2:2 (Folger Shakespeare Library, Fine and historic bookbindings from the Folger Shakespeare Library, New York, 1992).
Binding Terms (RBMS) Blind tooled bindings -- Austria -- 16th century.
Binding Terms (RBMS) Blind tooled bindings -- Germany -- 16th century.
Binding Terms (RBMS) Bosses -- Austria -- 16th century.
Binding Terms (RBMS) Bosses -- Germany -- 16th century.
Binding Terms (RBMS) Calf bindings -- Austria -- 16th century.
Binding Terms (RBMS) Calf bindings -- Germany -- 16th century.
Binding Terms (RBMS) Clasps -- Austria -- 16th century.
Binding Terms (RBMS) Clasps -- Germany -- 16th century.
Binding Terms (RBMS) Fillet tools -- Austria -- 16th century.
Binding Terms (RBMS) Fillet tools -- Germany -- 16th century.
Binding Terms (RBMS) Furniture -- Austria -- 16th century.
Binding Terms (RBMS) Furniture -- Germany -- 16th century.
Binding Terms (RBMS) Leather bindings -- Austria -- 16th century.
Binding Terms (RBMS) Leather bindings -- Germany -- 16th century.
Binding Terms (RBMS) Raised bands -- Austria -- 16th century.
Binding Terms (RBMS) Raised bands -- Germany -- 16th century.

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Image Caption Covers, INC A639.
General Description 15th century Italian goatskin binding, blind tooled.
Country / Style Italy
Period 15th century
Call Number INC A639
Provenance Inscription on t.p.: M. Ioannis Bãpta[e] Castilioni [...?].
Author Angelo Carletti,
Title [Summa angelica] Summa angelica.
Created / Published Uenetijs i[m]pressa : [per] Georgiu[m] de Ariuabenis, Mantuanu[m], anno d[omi]ni M.cccc. nonagesimo. q[ui]nto die vero secundo Mai [2 May 1495]
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Dimensions 168 x 123 x 55 mm
Covering Material Goatskin binding, blind tooled.
Sewing Sewn on three double alum tawed thongs pinned with iron nails to the boards (not laced).
Headbands Linen primary wrapped headband with green and white secondary with front bead, sewn over a parchment/gut core.
Edge Treatment Inscription of title on head edge, reading from spine to fore-edge.
End Papers New hand made paper sewn as a signature with pastedown. Fragments of original pastedown with manuscript notations mounted on top of new pastedown.
Closures Central bosses remaining on the front and back covers. Square chased brass bosses with raised centers and scalloped edges, and evidence of four corner bosses on front and back covers. Remnant of a corner on the upper left inside corner. Two clasps hinging from the front to back with straps and hasps replaced.
Decorative Description The covers were blind tooled into three panels using a triple line fillet. The center of the middle panel is filled with a repeated stamp of a broad leaf scroll with four petal rosettes in the curls. The center panel is tooled with four quadrangular rope work knot stamps and eight pointed star shaped stamps.
Other Details Housed in a clam shell box.
Binding Terms (RBMS) Blind tooled bindings -- Italy -- 15th century.
Binding Terms (RBMS) Bosses -- Italy -- 15th century.
Binding Terms (RBMS) Clasps -- Italy -- 15th century.
Binding Terms (RBMS) Fillet tools -- Italy -- 15th century.
Binding Terms (RBMS) Furniture -- Italy -- 15th century.
Binding Terms (RBMS) Goatskin bindings -- Italy -- 15th century.
Binding Terms (RBMS) Leather bindings -- Italy -- 15th century.
Binding Terms (RBMS) Panel-stamped bindings -- Italy -- 15th century.
Binding Terms (RBMS) Raised bands -- Italy -- 15th century.
Binding Terms (RBMS) Rebacking.

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Image Caption Front cover 2, INC B566.
General Description Late 16th century German alum tawed pigskin binding.
Country / Style Germany, Nuremberg
Period 1595
Call Number INC B566
Provenance Bookplates of Georg Kloss (no. 745 in the Sotheby sale catalog of his library, May 1835) and of Mr. and Mrs. Dunscombe Colt. Gift of Mrs. H. Dunscombe Colt--12 February 1983.
Author Bible. German
Title Disz durchleuchtigist werck der gantzen heyligen geschrifft, genant dy bibel ... hat hie ein ende ...
Created / Published [Nuremberg] : Gedruckt durch Anthonium Koburger in der löblichen keyserlichen reychstat Nürenberg, Nach der Geburt cristi ... [17 Feb 1483]
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Dimensions 405 x 277 x 130 mm
Covering Material Alum tawed pigskin.
Sewing Sewn on five double raised cords laced through the wooden boards.
Headbands Pre sewn and stuck-on endband sewn with a heavy natural and beige thread with a front bead. Sewn over a vellum support with a cord core. The vellum was adhered to the boards.
Edge Treatment Red and gray/green stenciled leafy pattern on all three edges.
End Papers 18th century flyleaf and paste-down, evidence of original paste-down underneath.
Closures Evidence of two bullet shaped clasps catching on the front cover (now missing). Strap plates still attached holding remnants of alum tawed straps wrapped around a tanned leather core. Evidence of four ornamental corner bosses and a small rhombus center boss, all missing and of Nuremberg manufacture.
Decorative Description Blind tooled in a six panel design formed with a variable width triple line fillet. The outer panel is not filled. The second panel is filled with a plant with bolt stamp repeated over each other. The next panel is filled with a guilloche and anthemion decorative roll. The next border is filled with narrow leafy scroll roll, then the next panel is a medallion roll of Reformers and decorative vase and leafy scroll roll. Then along the vertical panels there is a narrow medallion and flower roll. Across the horizontal are guilloche stamps. The center panel is a scroll azured panel stamp.
Binding Terms (RBMS) Alum tawed bindings -- Germany -- 16th century.
Binding Terms (RBMS) Blind tooled bindings -- Germany -- 16th century.
Binding Terms (RBMS) Bosses -- Germany -- 16th century.
Binding Terms (RBMS) Clasps -- Germany -- 16th century.
Binding Terms (RBMS) Fillet tools -- Germany -- 16th century.
Binding Terms (RBMS) Furniture -- Germany -- 16th century.
Binding Terms (RBMS) Leather bindings -- Germany -- 16th century.
Binding Terms (RBMS) Pigskin bindings -- Germany -- 16th century.
Binding Terms (RBMS) Raised bands -- Germany -- 16th century.

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Image Caption Back cover, INC B566.
General Description Late16th century German alum tawed pigskin binding.
Country / Style Germany, Nuremberg
Period 1595
Call Number INC B566
Provenance Bookplates of Georg Kloss (no. 745 in the Sotheby sale catalog of his library, May 1835) and of Mr. and Mrs. Dunscombe Colt. Gift of Mrs. H. Dunscombe Colt--12 February 1983.
Author Bible. German
Title Disz durchleuchtigist werck der gantzen heyligen geschrifft, genant dy bibel ... hat hie ein ende ...
Created / Published [Nuremberg] : Gedruckt durch Anthonium Koburger in der löblichen keyserlichen reychstat Nürenberg, Nach der Geburt cristi ... [17 Feb 1483]
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Dimensions 405 x 277 x 130 mm
Covering Material Alum tawed pigskin.
Sewing Sewn on five double raised cords laced through the wooden boards.
Headbands Pre sewn and stuck-on endband sewn with a heavy natural and beige thread with a front bead. Sewn over a vellum support with a cord core. The vellum was adhered to the boards.
Edge Treatment Red and gray/green stenciled leafy pattern on all three edges.
End Papers 18th century flyleaf and paste-down, evidence of original paste-down underneath.
Closures Evidence of two bullet shaped clasps catching on the front cover (now missing). Strap plates still attached holding remnants of alum tawed straps wrapped around a tanned leather core. Evidence of four ornamental corner bosses and a small rhombus center boss, all missing and of Nuremberg manufacture.
Decorative Description Blind tooled in a six panel design formed with a variable width triple line fillet. The outer panel is not filled. The second panel is filled with a plant with bolt stamp repeated over each other. The next panel is filled with a guilloche and anthemion decorative roll. The next border is filled with narrow leafy scroll roll, then the next panel is a medallion roll of Reformers and decorative vase and leafy scroll roll. Then along the vertical panels there is a narrow medallion and flower roll. Across the horizontal are guilloche stamps. The center panel is a scroll azured panel stamp.
Binding Terms (RBMS) Alum tawed bindings -- Germany -- 16th century.
Binding Terms (RBMS) Blind tooled bindings -- Germany -- 16th century.
Binding Terms (RBMS) Bosses -- Germany -- 16th century.
Binding Terms (RBMS) Clasps -- Germany -- 16th century.
Binding Terms (RBMS) Fillet tools -- Germany -- 16th century.
Binding Terms (RBMS) Furniture -- Germany -- 16th century.
Binding Terms (RBMS) Leather bindings -- Germany -- 16th century.
Binding Terms (RBMS) Pigskin bindings -- Germany -- 16th century.
Binding Terms (RBMS) Raised bands -- Germany -- 16th century.

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Image Caption Front cover, INC G335.
General Description Contemporary 15th century Italian binding.
Country / Style Italy
Period 15th century
Call Number INC G335
Provenance Manuscript notes on manuscript fragment used as endpaper at front, faint, mostly illegible "p[ro]pheta d[e] Bononia[?] an[n]o 1521 i[n] loco Com̃odj [?] tenui hu[n]c libru[m]"; another inscription in verse on recto of 1st leaf "Papara progenies: Patria est Theatina: Ioan[n]es Nornetj[?]: Caesarum ius mihi cura prior ..."; autograph on leaf A2r "Cesare Fedele".
Author Gratian, 12th cent.
Title [Decretum] Exactu[m] diuinis auspicijs Decretum ...
Created / Published Venetijs imp[re]ssum : Cura impensisq[ue] magistri Petri Cremone[n]sis, dicti Veronensis de Plasijs ..., anno ab Incarnatione D[omi]ni 1483 die xxv. Ianuarij ...
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Dimensions 255 x 176 x 106 mm
Covering Material Burgundy goatskin over beech boards.
Sewing Sewn on three three split alum tawed thongs inset into the board and pinned with iron nails.
Headbands Primary wrapped linen over a cochineal dyed tawed core with secondary herringbone sewing (much worn).
Edge Treatment Faint ink inscription on the top edge.
End Papers Fragment of a vellum manuscript choir book used as endpaper at front of the book.
Closures Evidence of two clasps catching on the back cover. Only strap nails extant. Evidence of five crenellated round bosses on the front and back covers, none extant.
Decorative Description The front cover is a blind tooled multiple panel design. The outer border is a combination of three single line fillets, then a border of flowers in a square pot stamp repeated around the cover, then a rectangular stamp of a leafy scroll tooled around the cover creating another border. Next are several other panels created with double line fillets, the innermost filled with an indistinguishable decorative stamp. The back cover is similarly designed but with different decorative stamps. There is a covered half star burst stamp and an elaborate knot rope stamp (badly worn).
Binding Terms (RBMS) Blind tooled bindings -- Italy -- 15th century.
Binding Terms (RBMS) Bosses -- Italy -- 15th century.
Binding Terms (RBMS) Clasps -- Italy -- 15th century.
Binding Terms (RBMS) Fillet tools -- Italy -- 15th century.
Binding Terms (RBMS) Furniture -- Italy -- 15th century.
Binding Terms (RBMS) Goatskin bindings -- Italy -- 15th century.
Binding Terms (RBMS) Leather bindings -- Italy -- 15th century.
Binding Terms (RBMS) Raised bands -- Italy -- 15th century.

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Image Caption Tooling (detail 3), INC G335.
General Description Contemporary 15th century Italian binding.
Country / Style Italy
Period 15th century
Call Number INC G335
Provenance Manuscript notes on manuscript fragment used as endpaper at front, faint, mostly illegible "p[ro]pheta d[e] Bononia[?] an[n]o 1521 i[n] loco Com̃odj [?] tenui hu[n]c libru[m]"; another inscription in verse on recto of 1st leaf "Papara progenies: Patria est Theatina: Ioan[n]es Nornetj[?]: Caesarum ius mihi cura prior ..."; autograph on leaf A2r "Cesare Fedele".
Author Gratian, 12th cent.
Title [Decretum] Exactu[m] diuinis auspicijs Decretum ...
Created / Published Venetijs imp[re]ssum : Cura impensisq[ue] magistri Petri Cremone[n]sis, dicti Veronensis de Plasijs ..., anno ab Incarnatione D[omi]ni 1483 die xxv. Ianuarij ...
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Dimensions 255 x 176 x 106 mm
Covering Material Burgundy goatskin over beech boards.
Sewing Sewn on three three split alum tawed thongs inset into the board and pinned with iron nails.
Headbands Primary wrapped linen over a cochineal dyed tawed core with secondary herringbone sewing (much worn).
Edge Treatment Faint ink inscription on the top edge.
End Papers Fragment of a vellum manuscript choir book used as endpaper at front of the book.
Closures Evidence of two clasps catching on the back cover. Only strap nails extant. Evidence of five crenellated round bosses on the front and back covers, none extant.
Decorative Description The front cover is a blind tooled multiple panel design. The outer border is a combination of three single line fillets, then a border of flowers in a square pot stamp repeated around the cover, then a rectangular stamp of a leafy scroll tooled around the cover creating another border. Next are several other panels created with double line fillets, the innermost filled with an indistinguishable decorative stamp. The back cover is similarly designed but with different decorative stamps. There is a covered half star burst stamp and an elaborate knot rope stamp (badly worn).
Binding Terms (RBMS) Blind tooled bindings -- Italy -- 15th century.
Binding Terms (RBMS) Bosses -- Italy -- 15th century.
Binding Terms (RBMS) Fillet tools -- Italy -- 15th century.
Binding Terms (RBMS) Furniture -- Italy -- 15th century.
Binding Terms (RBMS) Goatskin bindings -- Italy -- 15th century.
Binding Terms (RBMS) Leather bindings -- Italy -- 15th century.

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Image Caption Front cover, INC H190 c.2.
General Description 15th century brown calfskin monastic binding
Country / Style Germany
Period 15th century
Call Number INC H190 copy 2
Provenance Ownership inscriptions on first leaf "liber mei Iohẽs Haeke de Ruẽmũd.", and "Iste lib[er] p[er]tin[et] [con]ue[n]tui frm̃ s[anc]t[a]e cr[ucis] i[n] Rur[em]unda ad s[anc]tum̃ Corneliu[m] ex pia dona[tione] vidu[alis?] Dni. io. Haeck artiu[m] libraliu[m] mgri. medicinarũq[ue] licenciati exp[er]tissi ..."; lower pt. of 1st leaf (bearing provenance?) has been cut off and replaced; another inscription on leaf a2r "Cruciferorum Ruremũd[ae]"; bookplate of Francis Hopkinson and his notes on front endpaper locating the printing in Basel; also a bookplate with motto "Arise. Pray. Work"; purchased in 1917.
Title Vitae patrum. In antiquo[rum] patrum vitas a beato Hieronimo conscriptas registru[m] alphabetico ordine dilige[n]ter collectum incipit.
Created / Published [Strasbourg : Printer of the 1483 Vitas patrum], anno D[omi]ni 1485 Nonas v[er]o Iulij [7 July] ...
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Dimensions 320 x 218 x 55 mm
Covering Material Brown calfskin.
Sewing Originally sewn on three supports laced through wooden boards. Now sewn on three thin recessed supports laced through the board. Six false bands on the spine.
Headbands Red and white machine made stuck on headbands.
End Papers Two flyleaves and one paste-down.
Closures Evidence of two clasps catching on the front board, and five bosses, now all missing.
Decorative Description Blind tooled in a panel design with numerous blind tooled stamps. Designated in Schwenke-Schunke as "Hildesheim Christuskopf" (Lamm 42, Pelikan 16, Hirsch 68, Hahn 23/4, Hertz 110, and Schrift 121), the center panel is filled with a merrythought pattern with small rosettes, paschal lamb with banner IHS monogram rondel. Rooster rondels (front board) and stag rondels (back cover) are tooled in the center of the crossed panel frames. The middle panel is filled with repeated impressions of a broad leaf scroll and there are individual stamps tooled in the margins once: spear crossed heart lozenge, a standing Madonna and child lozenge stamp, a pelican feeding three chicks with blood in a lozenge, and a branch in a lozenge. All are bordered by small annular dots and small rosettes.
Binding Terms (RBMS) Blind tooled bindings -- Germany -- 15th century.
Binding Terms (RBMS) Bosses -- Germany -- 15th century.
Binding Terms (RBMS) Calf bindings -- Germany -- 15th century.
Binding Terms (RBMS) Clasps -- Germany -- 15th century.
Binding Terms (RBMS) Fillet tools -- Germany -- 15th century.
Binding Terms (RBMS) Furniture -- Germany -- 15th century.
Binding Terms (RBMS) Leather bindings -- Germany -- 15th century.
Binding Terms (RBMS) Raised bands -- Germany -- 15th century.

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Image Caption Rooster rondell stamp (detail), INC H190 c.2.
General Description 15th century brown calfskin monastic binding
Country / Style Germany
Period 15th century
Call Number INC H190 copy 2
Provenance Ownership inscriptions on first leaf "liber mei Iohẽs Haeke de Ruẽmũd.", and "Iste lib[er] p[er]tin[et] [con]ue[n]tui frm̃ s[anc]t[a]e cr[ucis] i[n] Rur[em]unda ad s[anc]tum̃ Corneliu[m] ex pia dona[tione] vidu[alis?] Dni. io. Haeck artiu[m] libraliu[m] mgri. medicinarũq[ue] licenciati exp[er]tissi ..."; lower pt. of 1st leaf (bearing provenance?) has been cut off and replaced; another inscription on leaf a2r "Cruciferorum Ruremũd[ae]"; bookplate of Francis Hopkinson and his notes on front endpaper locating the printing in Basel; also a bookplate with motto "Arise. Pray. Work"; purchased in 1917.
Title Vitae patrum. In antiquo[rum] patrum vitas a beato Hieronimo conscriptas registru[m] alphabetico ordine dilige[n]ter collectum incipit.
Created / Published [Strasbourg : Printer of the 1483 Vitas patrum], anno D[omi]ni 1485 Nonas v[er]o Iulij [7 July] ...
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Dimensions 320 x 218 x 55 mm
Covering Material Brown calfskin.
Sewing Originally sewn on three supports laced through wooden boards. Now sewn on three thin recessed supports laced through the board. Six false bands on the spine.
Headbands Red and white machine made stuck on headbands.
End Papers Two flyleaves and one paste-down.
Closures Evidence of two clasps catching on the front board, and five bosses, now all missing.
Decorative Description Blind tooled in a panel design with numerous blind tooled stamps. Designated in Schwenke-Schunke as "Hildesheim Christuskopf" (Lamm 42, Pelikan 16, Hirsch 68, Hahn 23/4, Hertz 110, and Schrift 121), the center panel is filled with a merrythought pattern with small rosettes, paschal lamb with banner IHS monogram rondel. Rooster rondels (front board) and stag rondels (back cover) are tooled in the center of the crossed panel frames. The middle panel is filled with repeated impressions of a broad leaf scroll and there are individual stamps tooled in the margins once: spear crossed heart lozenge, a standing Madonna and child lozenge stamp, a pelican feeding three chicks with blood in a lozenge, and a branch in a lozenge. All are bordered by small annular dots and small rosettes.
Binding Terms (RBMS) Blind tooled bindings -- Germany -- 15th century.
Binding Terms (RBMS) Bosses -- Germany -- 15th century.
Binding Terms (RBMS) Calf bindings -- Germany -- 15th century.
Binding Terms (RBMS) Fillet tools -- Germany -- 15th century.
Binding Terms (RBMS) Furniture -- Germany -- 15th century.
Binding Terms (RBMS) Leather bindings -- Germany -- 15th century.

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Image Caption Back cover, INC H259.
General Description Contemporary Augsburg sheepskin binding over wooden boards.
Country / Style Germany
Period 15th century
Call Number INC H259
Provenance Early label at head of front cover reading "Ropert[us] Holcot sup[er] lib[er] sapiẽ."; fragment of an early paper label on spine reading "VII [...?]9:" (other inscriptions have been covered by more recent labels). Purchased in 1958.
Author Holkot, Robertus, d
Title [Super sapientiam Salomonis] Opus preclarissimum eximij d[omi]ni magistri Roperti Holkot ... ordinis fratru[m] p[rae]dicato[rum] sup[er] sapie[n]tia[m] Salomonis, qua[m] philo disertissimus collegit ...
Created / Published [Speyer] : Per me Petrum Drach ciuem Spiren[sem] impressu[m], anno Incarnat[i]onis Dominice [1483] quarta die Kale[n]das Marcij [26 Feb.] ...
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Dimensions 295 x 205 x 87 mm (without bosses)
Covering Material Brown sheepskin.
Sewing Sewn on three double raised hemp cords.
Headbands None.
End Papers Single flyleaf and paste-down.
Closures Two "Maria" clasps catching on the front board. Hasps missing, five small circular raised flat-topped bosses with wide tapered rims with small indentations in their centers. Only three remain on either side.
Decorative Description Blind tooled in a panel design formed with a triple line fillet. The outer panel is filled with a compound decorative roll made from two different designs: an intertwined semicircular ribbon and a narrow leafy vine. The center panel is filled with a merrythought pattern with a leafy mandorla shaped stamp. At the head of front cover is an early label reading "Ropert[us] Holcot sup[er] lib[er] sapiẽ.". The spine is divided into four panels with the merrythought tool blind tooled in the panels, in the bottom panel is a fragment of an early paper label on spine reading "VII [...?]9:" (other labels and tooling have been covered by more recent labels).
Binding Terms (RBMS) Blind tooled bindings -- Germany -- 15th century.
Binding Terms (RBMS) Bosses -- Germany -- 15th century.
Binding Terms (RBMS) Clasps -- Germany -- 15th century.
Binding Terms (RBMS) Fillet tools -- Germany -- 15th century.
Binding Terms (RBMS) Furniture -- Germany -- 15th century.
Binding Terms (RBMS) Leather bindings -- Germany -- 15th century.
Binding Terms (RBMS) Raised bands -- Germany -- 15th century.
Binding Terms (RBMS) Sheepskin bindings -- Germany -- 15th century.

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Image Caption Front cover, INC H259.
General Description Contemporary Augsburg sheepskin binding over wooden boards.
Country / Style Germany
Period 15th century
Call Number INC H259
Provenance Early label at head of front cover reading "Ropert[us] Holcot sup[er] lib[er] sapiẽ."; fragment of an early paper label on spine reading "VII [...?]9:" (other inscriptions have been covered by more recent labels). Purchased in 1958.
Author Holkot, Robertus, d
Title [Super sapientiam Salomonis] Opus preclarissimum eximij d[omi]ni magistri Roperti Holkot ... ordinis fratru[m] p[rae]dicato[rum] sup[er] sapie[n]tia[m] Salomonis, qua[m] philo disertissimus collegit ...
Created / Published [Speyer] : Per me Petrum Drach ciuem Spiren[sem] impressu[m], anno Incarnat[i]onis Dominice [1483] quarta die Kale[n]das Marcij [26 Feb.] ...
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Dimensions 295 x 205 x 87 mm (without bosses)
Covering Material Brown sheepskin.
Sewing Sewn on three double raised hemp cords.
Headbands None.
End Papers Single flyleaf and paste-down.
Closures Two "Maria" clasps catching on the front board. Hasps missing, five small circular raised flat-topped bosses with wide tapered rims with small indentations in their centers. Only three remain on either side.
Decorative Description Blind tooled in a panel design formed with a triple line fillet. The outer panel is filled with a compound decorative roll made from two different designs: an intertwined semicircular ribbon and a narrow leafy vine. The center panel is filled with a merrythought pattern with a leafy mandorla shaped stamp. At the head of front cover is an early label reading "Ropert[us] Holcot sup[er] lib[er] sapiẽ.". The spine is divided into four panels with the merrythought tool blind tooled in the panels, in the bottom panel is a fragment of an early paper label on spine reading "VII [...?]9:" (other labels and tooling have been covered by more recent labels).
Binding Terms (RBMS) Blind tooled bindings -- Germany -- 15th century.
Binding Terms (RBMS) Bosses -- Germany -- 15th century.
Binding Terms (RBMS) Clasps -- Germany -- 15th century.
Binding Terms (RBMS) Fillet tools -- Germany -- 15th century.
Binding Terms (RBMS) Furniture -- Germany -- 15th century.
Binding Terms (RBMS) Leather bindings -- Germany -- 15th century.
Binding Terms (RBMS) Raised bands -- Germany -- 15th century.
Binding Terms (RBMS) Sheepskin bindings -- Germany -- 15th century.

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Field Data
Image Caption Back cover, INC N51.
General Description 15th century German calfskin binding. Rebound in the 20th century with black goatskin.
Country / Style Germany
Period 15th century
Call Number INC N51
Provenance Bookplate bearing bibliographic notes, of John William Pease (no. 140 in the Sotheby sale catalog of his library, March 1920); bookplate of W.T. Smedley; purchased in 1924.
Author Nicholas, of Osimo, d
Title [Supplementum Summae Pisanellae] Summa Pisani cum Supplemento incipit feliciter, que al[ia]s Magistrutia seu Pisanella appellatur.
Created / Published [Cologne : Ulrich Zell], 1483 Nona Kal[endas] Marcij [21 Feb.]
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Dimensions 300 x 213 x 69 mm
Covering Material Originally chestnut brown calfskin; rebacked with goatskin in the 20th century.
Sewing Sewn on five single raised hemp cords laced through the oak boards.
Headbands Double tiered stuck-on headbands in red and white silk.
Edge Treatment Gilt on all three edges.
End Papers Three wove paper flyleaves and a small narrow joint covering.
Closures Evidence of five circular bosses on both covers and two clasps on the fore-edge that caught on the top board.
Decorative Description Rebound in early 20th century, retaining original blind stamped calf covers in a panel design with triple line fillet borders. The center panel is filled with a juxtaposition of small square stamps (unicorn, lamb, stag stamps). On the back cover are four square stamps in a diced center panel (unicorn, lamb, stag, and a hound).
Binding Terms (RBMS) Blind tooled bindings -- Germany -- 15th century.
Binding Terms (RBMS) Bosses -- Germany -- 15th century.
Binding Terms (RBMS) Calf bindings -- Germany -- 15th century.
Binding Terms (RBMS) Clasps -- Germany -- 15th century.
Binding Terms (RBMS) Fillet tools -- Germany -- 15th century.
Binding Terms (RBMS) Furniture -- Germany -- 15th century.
Binding Terms (RBMS) Goatskin bindings -- 20th century.
Binding Terms (RBMS) Leather bindings -- 20th century.
Binding Terms (RBMS) Raised bands -- Germany -- 15th century.
Binding Terms (RBMS) Rebacking -- 20th century.

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Image Caption Stag stamp (detail 2), INC N51.
General Description 15th century German calfskin binding. Rebound in the 20th century with black goatskin.
Country / Style Germany
Period 15th century
Call Number INC N51
Provenance Bookplate bearing bibliographic notes, of John William Pease (no. 140 in the Sotheby sale catalog of his library, March 1920); bookplate of W.T. Smedley; purchased in 1924.
Author Nicholas, of Osimo, d
Title [Supplementum Summae Pisanellae] Summa Pisani cum Supplemento incipit feliciter, que al[ia]s Magistrutia seu Pisanella appellatur.
Created / Published [Cologne : Ulrich Zell], 1483 Nona Kal[endas] Marcij [21 Feb.]
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Dimensions 300 x 213 x 69 mm
Covering Material Originally chestnut brown calfskin; rebacked with goatskin in the 20th century.
Sewing Sewn on five single raised hemp cords laced through the oak boards.
Headbands Double tiered stuck-on headbands in red and white silk.
Edge Treatment Gilt on all three edges.
End Papers Three wove paper flyleaves and a small narrow joint covering.
Closures Evidence of five circular bosses on both covers and two clasps on the fore-edge that caught on the top board.
Decorative Description Rebound in early 20th century, retaining original blind stamped calf covers in a panel design with triple line fillet borders. The center panel is filled with a juxtaposition of small square stamps (unicorn, lamb, stag stamps). On the back cover are four square stamps in a diced center panel (unicorn, lamb, stag, and a hound).
Binding Terms (RBMS) Blind tooled bindings -- Germany -- 15th century.
Binding Terms (RBMS) Bosses -- Germany -- 15th century.
Binding Terms (RBMS) Calf bindings -- Germany -- 15th century.
Binding Terms (RBMS) Fillet tools -- Germany -- 15th century.
Binding Terms (RBMS) Furniture -- Germany -- 15th century.
Binding Terms (RBMS) Leather bindings -- Germany -- 15th century.

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Image Caption Stag, unicorn, and lamb stamp (detail 2), INC N51.
General Description 15th century German calfskin binding. Rebound in the 20th century with black goatskin.
Country / Style Germany
Period 15th century
Call Number INC N51
Provenance Bookplate bearing bibliographic notes, of John William Pease (no. 140 in the Sotheby sale catalog of his library, March 1920); bookplate of W.T. Smedley; purchased in 1924.
Author Nicholas, of Osimo, d
Title [Supplementum Summae Pisanellae] Summa Pisani cum Supplemento incipit feliciter, que al[ia]s Magistrutia seu Pisanella appellatur.
Created / Published [Cologne : Ulrich Zell], 1483 Nona Kal[endas] Marcij [21 Feb.]
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Dimensions 300 x 213 x 69 mm
Covering Material Originally chestnut brown calfskin; rebacked with goatskin in the 20th century.
Sewing Sewn on five single raised hemp cords laced through the oak boards.
Headbands Double tiered stuck-on headbands in red and white silk.
Edge Treatment Gilt on all three edges.
End Papers Three wove paper flyleaves and a small narrow joint covering.
Closures Evidence of five circular bosses on both covers and two clasps on the fore-edge that caught on the top board.
Decorative Description Rebound in early 20th century, retaining original blind stamped calf covers in a panel design with triple line fillet borders. The center panel is filled with a juxtaposition of small square stamps (unicorn, lamb, stag stamps). On the back cover are four square stamps in a diced center panel (unicorn, lamb, stag, and a hound).
Binding Terms (RBMS) Blind tooled bindings -- Germany -- 15th century.
Binding Terms (RBMS) Bosses -- Germany -- 15th century.
Binding Terms (RBMS) Calf bindings -- Germany -- 15th century.
Binding Terms (RBMS) Fillet tools -- Germany -- 15th century.
Binding Terms (RBMS) Furniture -- Germany -- 15th century.
Binding Terms (RBMS) Leather bindings -- Germany -- 15th century.

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Image Caption Back cover, INC P1021.
General Description 15th century Italian calf binding.
Country / Style Italy
Period 15th century
Call Number INC P1021
Provenance W. Smedley
Author Pulci, Luigi,
Title [Morgante] Finito il libro appellato Morga[n]te maggiore / facto come e decto al principio da Luigi de Pulci ad petitio[n]e della excellentissima mona Lucretia di Piero di Cosimo de Medici ... ritracto dallo originale uero & riueduto & correcto dal proprio auctore che iddio felicemente co[n]serui & dia piacere a chi lege con salute della anima & del corpo.
Created / Published Impresso in Venesia : Per Matheo di Codeca da Parma, della[n]no della Incarnatione del nostro Sgnore [sic] Iesu Christo, 1449 [i.e. 1494?], adi xvi Aprile.
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Dimensions 220 x 155 x 42 mm
Covering Material Burgundy/brown calfskin.
Sewing Sewn on three alum tawed split thongs, all three crossed and are partially recessed into the wooden boards, but only the top and bottom are laced into the board. Thin ends of the thongs are visible under the paste-downs.
Headbands Small front bead linen headbands.
End Papers Single flyleaf and paste-down.
Closures Traces of four triangular Italian catch-plates on the back cover, and traces of three nail holes securing the straps on the front cover. Traces of corner and center bosses all missing. The holes for the center bosses have been covered with leather and tooled over.
Decorative Description Blind tooled with a multiple panel design using a quadruple line fillet. The outer panel is tooled with the same quadruple line at angles and a quatrefoil stamp spaced around the panel. On the front cover the middle panel is tooled with a closely repeated stamp of a face surrounded by scrolled leaf. On the back cover this panel is tooled with a stamp of a trefoil in circular scroll. The center panel is bordered at the top and bottom with a leafy anthemion stamp and the center has a roundel filled with a studded semicircular stamp and thin tri-leaf stamp at the corners. The spine is tooled with crossed quadruple lines in the panels.
Binding Terms (RBMS) Blind tooled bindings -- Italy -- 15th century.
Binding Terms (RBMS) Bosses -- Italy -- 15th century.
Binding Terms (RBMS) Calf bindings -- Italy -- 15th century.
Binding Terms (RBMS) Clasps -- Italy -- 15th century.
Binding Terms (RBMS) Fillet tools -- Italy -- 15th century.
Binding Terms (RBMS) Furniture -- Italy -- 15th century.
Binding Terms (RBMS) Leather bindings -- Italy -- 15th century.
Binding Terms (RBMS) Raised bands -- Italy -- 15th century.

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Field Data
Image Caption Front cover, INC P1021.
General Description 15th century Italian calf binding.
Country / Style Italy
Period 15th century
Call Number INC P1021
Provenance W. Smedley
Author Pulci, Luigi,
Title [Morgante] Finito il libro appellato Morga[n]te maggiore / facto come e decto al principio da Luigi de Pulci ad petitio[n]e della excellentissima mona Lucretia di Piero di Cosimo de Medici ... ritracto dallo originale uero & riueduto & correcto dal proprio auctore che iddio felicemente co[n]serui & dia piacere a chi lege con salute della anima & del corpo.
Created / Published Impresso in Venesia : Per Matheo di Codeca da Parma, della[n]no della Incarnatione del nostro Sgnore [sic] Iesu Christo, 1449 [i.e. 1494?], adi xvi Aprile.
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Dimensions 220 x 155 x 42 mm
Covering Material Burgundy/brown calfskin.
Sewing Sewn on three alum tawed split thongs, all three crossed and are partially recessed into the wooden boards, but only the top and bottom are laced into the board. Thin ends of the thongs are visible under the paste-downs.
Headbands Small front bead linen headbands.
End Papers Single flyleaf and paste-down.
Closures traces of four triangular Italian catch-plates on the back cover, and traces of three nail holes securing the straps on the front cover. Traces of corner and center bosses all missing. The holes for the center bosses have been covered with leather and tooled over.
Decorative Description Blind tooled with a multiple panel design using a quadruple line fillet. The outer panel is tooled with the same quadruple line at angles and a quatrefoil stamp spaced around the panel. On the front cover the middle panel is tooled with a closely repeated stamp of a face surrounded by scrolled leaf. On the back cover this panel is tooled with a stamp of a trefoil in circular scroll. The center panel is bordered at the top and bottom with a leafy anthemion stamp and the center has a roundel filled with a studded semicircular stamp and thin tri-leaf stamp at the corners. The spine is tooled with crossed quadruple lines in the panels.
Binding Terms (RBMS) Blind tooled bindings -- Italy -- 15th century.
Binding Terms (RBMS) Bosses -- Italy -- 15th century.
Binding Terms (RBMS) Calf bindings -- Italy -- 15th century.
Binding Terms (RBMS) Clasps -- Italy -- 15th century.
Binding Terms (RBMS) Fillet tools -- Italy -- 15th century.
Binding Terms (RBMS) Furniture -- Italy -- 15th century.
Binding Terms (RBMS) Leather bindings -- Italy -- 15th century.
Binding Terms (RBMS) Raised bands -- Italy -- 15th century.

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Image Caption Front cover, INC P732.
General Description 15th century Italian deerskin binding.
Country / Style Italy
Period 15th century
Call Number INC P732
Provenance Silva, Luigi, marchese; Finetti, P.
Author Pliny, the Elder.
Title [Naturalis historia. Italian] Historia naturale di C. Plinio Secondo / tradocta di lingua latina in fiorentina per Christophoro Landino fiorentino al serenissimo Ferdinando re di Napoli.
Created / Published Impresso in Venesia : Per Bartolamio de Zani de Portesio, nellanno della Natiuita del nostro Signore Iesu Christo 1489 adi xii. di septembre.
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Dimensions 325 x 225 x 78 mm
Covering Material Yellow reverse deerskin.
Sewing Sewn on three slit double raised thongs.
Headbands Endbands are brown and natural linen with a front bead over alum tawed thongs. The tie-downs are sewn over a tanned leather spine support.
End Papers Single layer paste-down.
Closures Four clasps, two at the fore-edge and one at head and tail (all missing), with evidence of corner and center bosses with crenulated edges.
Decorative Description No tooling. The color of the leather and the metal furnishings were the decoration. On the spine there is evidence of author-title inscription and the remains of paper labels.
Binding Terms (RBMS) Bosses -- Italy -- 15th century.
Binding Terms (RBMS) Clasps -- Italy -- 15th century.
Binding Terms (RBMS) Deerskin bindings -- Italy -- 15th century.
Binding Terms (RBMS) Furniture -- Italy -- 15th century.
Binding Terms (RBMS) Leather bindings -- Italy -- 15th century.
Binding Terms (RBMS) Reversed leather bindings -- Italy -- 15th century.

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Image Caption Back cover, INC Q27.
General Description 15th century Italian sheepskin binding.
Country / Style Italy
Period 15th century
Call Number INC Q27
Provenance Hoskier, H. C. (Herman Charles), ; Smedley, William T. (William Thomas), b. 1851; Domus S. Nicolai Tolent. Venet.
Author Quintilian.
Title [Institutiones oratoriae] Quintiliani Institutiones : cum commento Laurentii Vallensis, Pomponii, ac Sulpitii.
Created / Published Impressum Venetiis : Per Peregrinum de Pasqualibus de Bononia, anno Domini 1494, die xviii Augusti.
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Dimensions 329 x 215 x 55 mm
Covering Material Reddish brown sheepskin.
Sewing Sewn on three slit double cochineal stained alum tawed thongs, channeled into the boards and pegged.
Headbands Endband, primary wrapped linen over tawed leather thong laced into the boards, with evidence of secondary embroidery using green thread.
Edge Treatment Stained rose color on the top edge is written QVINL.
End Papers Front of the binding has a stub of a flyleaf and paste-down, the back has a full flyleaf and paste-down.
Closures Evidence of four clasps catching on the back covers (two on the fore-edge and one at the head and tail). The catches are missing but impressions in the leather show that they were triangular rolled edge catches with an ornate stamped design. Straps (missing) were leather reinforced with vellum secured with three iron nails. There is evidence of five round bosses on the front and back covers (missing).
Decorative Description Blind tooled with a panel design using a variable width triple line fillet. In the second panel a leaf-design stamp was repeated carefully filling the space. In the center panel the fillet was used forming a hexagon. The spine is divided into four panels with the triple line fillet tooled above and below the bands and used to create a cris-cross design. Adhered over the spine are three paper labels, damaged, partially illegible with handwritten author name and shelfmarks, the upper one covering a previous label.
Binding Terms (RBMS) Blind tooled bindings -- Italy -- 15th century.
Binding Terms (RBMS) Bosses -- Italy -- 15th century.
Binding Terms (RBMS) Clasps -- Italy -- 15th century.
Binding Terms (RBMS) Fillet tools -- Italy -- 15th century.
Binding Terms (RBMS) Furniture -- Italy -- 15th century.
Binding Terms (RBMS) Leather bindings -- Italy -- 15th century.
Binding Terms (RBMS) Raised bands -- Italy -- 15th century.
Binding Terms (RBMS) Sheepskin bindings -- Italy -- 15th century.

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Field Data
Image Caption Front cover, INC Q27.
General Description 15th century Italian sheepskin binding.
Country / Style Italy
Period 15th century
Call Number INC Q27
Provenance Hoskier, H. C. (Herman Charles), ; Smedley, William T. (William Thomas), b. 1851; Domus S. Nicolai Tolent. Venet.
Author Quintilian.
Title [Institutiones oratoriae] Quintiliani Institutiones : cum commento Laurentii Vallensis, Pomponii, ac Sulpitii.
Created / Published Impressum Venetiis : Per Peregrinum de Pasqualibus de Bononia, anno Domini 1494, die xviii Augusti.
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Dimensions 329 x 215 x 55 mm
Covering Material Reddish brown sheepskin.
Sewing Sewn on three slit double cochineal stained alum tawed thongs, channeled into the boards and pegged.
Headbands Endband, primary wrapped linen over tawed leather thong laced into the boards, with evidence of secondary embroidery using green thread.
Edge Treatment Stained rose color on the top edge is written QVINL.
End Papers Front of the binding has a stub of a flyleaf and paste-down, the back has a full flyleaf and paste-down.
Closures Evidence of four clasps catching on the back covers (two on the fore-edge and one at the head and tail). The catches are missing but impressions in the leather show that they were triangular rolled edge catches with an ornate stamped design. Straps (missing) were leather reinforced with vellum secured with three iron nails. There is evidence of five round bosses on the front and back covers (missing).
Decorative Description Blind tooled with a panel design using a variable width triple line fillet. In the second panel a leaf-design stamp was repeated carefully filling the space. In the center panel the fillet was used forming a hexagon. The spine is divided into four panels with the triple line fillet tooled above and below the bands and used to create a cris-cross design. Adhered over the spine are three paper labels, damaged, partially illegible with handwritten author name and shelfmarks, the upper one covering a previous label.
Binding Terms (RBMS) Blind tooled bindings -- Italy -- 15th century.
Binding Terms (RBMS) Bosses -- Italy -- 15th century.
Binding Terms (RBMS) Clasps -- Italy -- 15th century.
Binding Terms (RBMS) Fillet tools -- Italy -- 15th century.
Binding Terms (RBMS) Furniture -- Italy -- 15th century.
Binding Terms (RBMS) Leather bindings -- Italy -- 15th century.
Binding Terms (RBMS) Raised bands -- Italy -- 15th century.
Binding Terms (RBMS) Sheepskin bindings -- Italy -- 15th century.

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Image Caption Back cover, INC T302.
General Description 15th century sheepskin binding.
Country / Style Italy
Period 15th century
Call Number INC T302
Provenance Ownership inscription in brown ink on t.p.: "Est S. Ioannis in Valle", following shelfmark: "C alto 3 no. 6."; bookplate of W.T. Smedley; purchased in 1924.
Author Thomas, Aquinas, Saint, 1225?-1274.
Title [Summa totius logicae Aristotelis] Logica Sancti Thome de Aquino.
Created / Published Impressum Venetijs : Per Symone[m] dictu[m] Biuilaqua Papiensem, anno 1496, die xx. Maij.
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Dimensions 230 x 165 x 20 mm
Covering Material Black sheepskin.
Sewing Sewn on two slit alum-tawed thongs recessed into the wooden boards and secured with wooden pins.
Headbands Primary endband sewn with linen thread over an alum-tawed thong, secondary sewing with green and red silk in a herringbone pattern.
Closures Remnant of a single clasp catching on the back cover, catch plate remaining on the back cover and a large round domed nail remaining securing an unlined leather strap on the front cover. Evidence of five bosses, at the corners and in the center, probably light weight, as they were secured with small thin brass nails.
Decorative Description Covers blind tooled to a four panel design, using a triple line fillet. At the corners of the outer border the lines are stopped by a "Y" pattern that links to the third panel. The outer panel is tooled with a hatched "S" curve roll. The second panel has staggered annular dots stamps. The third panel is filled with a repeated impression of a plant between cornucopia stamp. The center panel has four knotwork stamps at the corners and annular dots, there is a rhombus in the center made from the triple line fillet, and within the rhombus is a border tooled with a star cross stamp.
Binding Terms (RBMS) Blind tooled bindings -- Italy -- 15th century.
Binding Terms (RBMS) Bosses -- Italy -- 15th century.
Binding Terms (RBMS) Clasps -- Italy -- 15th century.
Binding Terms (RBMS) Fillet tools -- Italy -- 15th century.
Binding Terms (RBMS) Furniture -- Italy -- 15th century.
Binding Terms (RBMS) Leather bindings -- Italy -- 15th century.
Binding Terms (RBMS) Sheepskin bindings -- Italy -- 15th century.
Binding Terms (RBMS) Wooden boards -- Italy -- 15th century.

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Field Data
Image Caption Front cover, INC T302.
General Description 15th century sheepskin binding.
Country / Style Italy
Period 15th century
Call Number INC T302
Provenance Ownership inscription in brown ink on t.p.: "Est S. Ioannis in Valle", following shelfmark: "C alto 3 no. 6."; bookplate of W.T. Smedley; purchased in 1924.
Author Thomas, Aquinas, Saint, 1225?-1274.
Title [Summa totius logicae Aristotelis] Logica Sancti Thome de Aquino.
Created / Published Impressum Venetijs : Per Symone[m] dictu[m] Biuilaqua Papiensem, anno 1496, die xx. Maij.
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Dimensions 230 x 165 x 20 mm
Covering Material Black sheepskin.
Sewing Sewn on two slit alum-tawed thongs recessed into the wooden boards and secured with wooden pins.
Headbands Primary endband sewn with linen thread over an alum-tawed thong, secondary sewing with green and red silk in a herringbone pattern.
Closures Remnant of a single clasp catching on the back cover, catch plate remaining on the back cover and a large round domed nail remaining securing an unlined leather strap on the front cover. Evidence of five bosses, at the corners and in the center, probably light weight, as they were secured with small thin brass nails.
Decorative Description Covers blind tooled to a four panel design, using a triple line fillet. At the corners of the outer border the lines are stopped by a "Y" pattern that links to the third panel. The outer panel is tooled with a hatched "S" curve roll. The second panel has staggered annular dots stamps. The third panel is filled with a repeated impression of a plant between cornucopia stamp. The center panel has four knotwork stamps at the corners and annular dots, there is a rhombus in the center made from the triple line fillet, and within the rhombus is a border tooled with a star cross stamp.
Binding Terms (RBMS) Blind tooled bindings -- Italy -- 15th century.
Binding Terms (RBMS) Bosses -- Italy -- 15th century.
Binding Terms (RBMS) Clasps -- Italy -- 15th century.
Binding Terms (RBMS) Fillet tools -- Italy -- 15th century.
Binding Terms (RBMS) Furniture -- Italy -- 15th century.
Binding Terms (RBMS) Leather bindings -- Italy -- 15th century.
Binding Terms (RBMS) Sheepskin bindings -- Italy -- 15th century.
Binding Terms (RBMS) Wooden boards -- Italy -- 15th century.

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Image Caption Back cover, INC T320.
General Description A German chained binding.
Country / Style Germany
Period 15th century
Call Number INC T320
Provenance Bookplate of Sir Robert Shafto Adair, bart.; bookplate "Chippenham Lodge, Ely 1950" of John Michael Henry Hely-Hutchinson, 7th Earl of Donoughmore; his sale, Sotheby's, March 12, 1956, lot 15; purchased in 1956 from F. Edwards, London.
Author Thomas, à Kempis,
Title [Works. 1494] Opera et libri vite Fratris Thome de Kempis ordinis Canonicorum regularium quoru[m] titulos vide in prmo folio.
Created / Published Nuremberge : Per Caspar Hochfeder opifice accuratissime impressi, in vigilia Andree Ap[osto]li [29 Nov.] Anno [Christ]i 1494.
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Dimensions 302 x 202 x 65 mm
Covering Material Alum tawed pigskin.
Sewing Sewn on three double raised supports laced through the wooden boards.
Headbands Endbands.
Binding Terms (RBMS) Alum tawed bindings -- Germany -- 15th century.
Binding Terms (RBMS) Blind tooled bindings -- Germany -- 15th century.
Binding Terms (RBMS) Bosses -- Germany -- 15th century.
Binding Terms (RBMS) Chained bindings -- Germany -- 15th century.
Binding Terms (RBMS) Clasps -- Germany -- 15th century.
Binding Terms (RBMS) Fillet tools -- Germany -- 15th century.
Binding Terms (RBMS) Furniture -- Germany -- 15th century.
Binding Terms (RBMS) Leather bindings -- Germany -- 15th century.
Binding Terms (RBMS) Pigskin bindings -- Germany -- 15th century.
Binding Terms (RBMS) Raised bands -- Germany -- 15th century.

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Image Caption Lily in rhombus stamp (detail), INC T320.
General Description A German chained binding.
Country / Style Germany
Period 15th century
Call Number INC T320
Provenance Bookplate of Sir Robert Shafto Adair, bart.; bookplate "Chippenham Lodge, Ely 1950" of John Michael Henry Hely-Hutchinson, 7th Earl of Donoughmore; his sale, Sotheby's, March 12, 1956, lot 15; purchased in 1956 from F. Edwards, London.
Author Thomas, à Kempis,
Title [Works. 1494] Opera et libri vite Fratris Thome de Kempis ordinis Canonicorum regularium quoru[m] titulos vide in prmo folio.
Created / Published Nuremberge : Per Caspar Hochfeder opifice accuratissime impressi, in vigilia Andree Ap[osto]li [29 Nov.] Anno [Christ]i 1494.
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Dimensions 302 x 202 x 65 mm
Covering Material Alum tawed pigskin.
Sewing Sewn on three double raised supports laced through the wooden boards.
Headbands Endbands.
Binding Terms (RBMS) Alum tawed bindings -- Germany -- 15th century.
Binding Terms (RBMS) Blind tooled bindings -- Germany -- 15th century.
Binding Terms (RBMS) Bosses -- Germany -- 15th century.
Binding Terms (RBMS) Clasps -- Germany -- 15th century.
Binding Terms (RBMS) Fillet tools -- Germany -- 15th century.
Binding Terms (RBMS) Furniture -- Germany -- 15th century.
Binding Terms (RBMS) Leather bindings -- Germany -- 15th century.
Binding Terms (RBMS) Pigskin bindings -- Germany -- 15th century.

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Image Caption Covers, INC V33 copy 1
Image Caption Covers, INC V33 copy 1.
General Description A Paduan or Venetian "Sarcophagus" binding, ca Brown goatskin over wooden boards with blind tooling and brass fittings. Some repair (20th century).
Country / Style Italy, Padua?
Country / Style Italy, Venice?
Period ca. 1485
Call Number INC V33 copy 1
Provenance B. Ricci, who has written a list of Roman kings and emperors on an endleaf; what are presumably his arms (quarterly, 1 and 4, per pale argent and gules, hedgehog [in Italian riccio] passant; 2 and 3, argent, two crosses per fess azure) are emblazoned on sig. al recto. These are perhaps the arms of Ricci of Venice, which are not recorded by Crollalanza; purchased by H. C. Folger as part of the library of W. T. Smedley (b. 1851).
Author Valerius Maximus.
Title [Factorum et dictorum memorabilium libri IX] Valerii Maximi Factorum ac dictorum memorabilium liber ad Tyberium Caesarem ...
Created / Published Impressum Venetiis : [Giovanni and Gregorio de' Gregori?, not after 1485]
Hamnet URL
Technical Description Sewn on three raised slit al tim-tawed straps with the front endleaves wrapped around the first section and given strips of vellum manuscript reinforcement. Flat spine with slight natural backing with leather linings set between the sewing supports. Compound endbands worked over a red alum-tawed core with primary sewing of linen thread; tied down through the leather lining at every other section. Secondary sewing worked in blue, yellow, and pink(?) with two supplementary thread cores running across the top and bottom of the previous sewing. Each board given inside bevel and laced on through channels cut off-center. The slips are held in place by two wooden pegs. The exposed covering leather is somewhat darker than the turn-ins. Tongue corners cut on the board. The headcap has been slit to accommodate endbands. (The tailcap is new.) One round brass boss remains in place on the upper cover with evidence of four others. Four of five bosses remain on the lower cover (the nail head of the missing boss is now visible). Three star rivets hold remnants of textile hasp straps, one at the head and tail and two at the fore-edge (one rivet is missing from the top strap). Each of the four triangular catch plates, with feathered decoration, on the lower cover is held in place by four pins with rounded raised heads. Author's name written in ink on fore-edge.
Dimensions 316 x 206 x 57 mm.
Decorative Description The central aedicule is worked with a four-line tool. (Curves made at the edges of the plinth and cornice would suggest the use of quite a small faced hand tool, perhaps with rounded ends.) A similar threeline tool may have been used to draw the two semicircular arches, possibly with the aid of a template. The whole is embellished with an "S" tool forming a rope-like pattern with a hollow dot and a small star. In the center of the arch a pyramid of knot work has been picked out with a small dot. A single fleur-de-lis forms a panel framed by a multi-line fillet. The same fillet is used on the outside border and turn-ins. The spine is divided into four compartments with lozenge and star decoration (the finishing in the top compartment is new).
Other Details The decoration is based on late Roman sarcophagi from the area of Ravenna. The motif was copied on bindings for the first time by the Veronese humanist, Felice Feliciano ( ), and was imitated in several cities in northeastern Italy between 1475 and Thirteen examples, not including this one, are listed by A. Hobson, Humanists and Bookbinders, pp The group of small stars at the upper inner corners of the frame would be consistent with a Paduan origin for the binding. What appears to be the same border tool was used on a copy of Diodorus Siculus, Bibliotheca, Venice 1476/7, in the Royal Library, Stockholm (Inc. 366).
Literature A. Hobson, Humanists and Bookbinders, pp ; Marinis, La Legatura, vol. Ill , pls. Bl, CCCCXXVII, CCCCLXXXVII-CCCCXCI.
Literature Folger 1:6 (Folger Shakespeare Library, Fine and historic bookbindings from the Folger Shakespeare Library, New York, 1992).
Binding Terms (RBMS) Blind tooled bindings -- Italy -- 15th century.
Binding Terms (RBMS) Bosses -- Italy -- 15th century.
Binding Terms (RBMS) Clasps -- Italy -- 15th century.
Binding Terms (RBMS) Fillet tools -- Italy -- 15th century.
Binding Terms (RBMS) Furniture -- Italy -- 15th century.
Binding Terms (RBMS) Goatskin bindings -- Italy -- 15th century.
Binding Terms (RBMS) Leather bindings -- Italy -- 15th century.
Binding Terms (RBMS) Raised bands -- Italy -- 15th century.

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Image Caption Front cover, INC V33 copy 1.
General Description A Paduan or Venetian "Sarcophagus" binding, ca Brown goatskin over wooden boards with blind tooling and brass fittings. Some repair (20th century).
Country / Style Italy, Padua?
Country / Style Italy, Venice?
Period ca. 1485
Call Number INC V33 copy 1
Provenance B. Ricci, who has written a list of Roman kings and emperors on an endleaf; what are presumably his arms (quarterly, 1 and 4, per pale argent and gules, hedgehog [in Italian riccio] passant; 2 and 3, argent, two crosses per fess azure) are emblazoned on sig. al recto. These are perhaps the arms of Ricci of Venice, which are not recorded by Crollalanza; purchased by H. C. Folger as part of the library of W. T. Smedley (b. 1851).
Author Valerius Maximus.
Title [Factorum et dictorum memorabilium libri IX] Valerii Maximi Factorum ac dictorum memorabilium liber ad Tyberium Caesarem ...
Created / Published Impressum Venetiis : [Giovanni and Gregorio de' Gregori?, not after 1485]
Hamnet URL
Technical Description Sewn on three raised slit alum-tawed straps with the front endleaves wrapped around the first section and given strips of vellum manuscript reinforcement. Flat spine with slight natural backing with leather linings set between the sewing supports. Compound endbands worked over a red alum-tawed core with primary sewing of linen thread; tied down through the leather lining at every other section. Secondary sewing worked in blue, yellow, and pink(?) with two supplementary thread cores running across the top and bottom of the previous sewing. Each board given inside bevel and laced on through channels cut off-center. The slips are held in place by two wooden pegs. The exposed covering leather is somewhat darker than the turn-ins. Tongue corners cut on the board. The headcap has been slit to accommodate endbands. (The tailcap is new.) One round brass boss remains in place on the upper cover with evidence of four others. Four of five bosses remain on the lower cover (the nail head of the missing boss is now visible). Three star rivets hold remnants of textile hasp straps, one at the head and tail and two at the fore-edge (one rivet is missing from the top strap). Each of the four triangular catch plates, with feathered decoration, on the lower cover is held in place by four pins with rounded raised heads. Author's name written in ink on fore-edge.
Dimensions 316 x 206 x 57 mm.
Decorative Description The central aedicule is worked with a four-line tool. (Curves made at the edges of the plinth and cornice would suggest the use of quite a small faced hand tool, perhaps with rounded ends.) A similar threeline tool may have been used to draw the two semicircular arches, possibly with the aid of a template. The whole is embellished with an "S" tool forming a rope-like pattern with a hollow dot and a small star. In the center of the arch a pyramid of knot work has been picked out with a small dot. A single fleur-de-lis forms a panel framed by a multi-line fillet. The same fillet is used on the outside border and turn-ins. The spine is divided into four compartments with lozenge and star decoration (the finishing in the top compartment is new).
Other Details The decoration is based on late Roman sarcophagi from the area of Ravenna. The motif was copied on bindings for the first time by the Veronese humanist, Felice Feliciano ( ), and was imitated in several cities in northeastern Italy between 1475 and Thirteen examples, not including this one, are listed by A. Hobson, Humanists and Bookbinders, pp The group of small stars at the upper inner corners of the frame would be consistent with a Paduan origin for the binding. What appears to be the same border tool was used on a copy of Diodorus Siculus, Bibliotheca, Venice 1476/7, in the Royal Library, Stockholm (Inc. 366).
Literature A. Hobson, Humanists and Bookbinders, pp ; Marinis, La Legatura, vol. Ill , pls. Bl, CCCCXXVII, CCCCLXXXVII-CCCCXCI.
Literature Folger 1:6 (Folger Shakespeare Library, Fine and historic bookbindings from the Folger Shakespeare Library, New York, 1992).
Binding Terms (RBMS) Blind tooled bindings -- Italy -- 15th century.
Binding Terms (RBMS) Bosses -- Italy -- 15th century.
Binding Terms (RBMS) Clasps -- Italy -- 15th century.
Binding Terms (RBMS) Fillet tools -- Italy -- 15th century.
Binding Terms (RBMS) Furniture -- Italy -- 15th century.
Binding Terms (RBMS) Goatskin bindings -- Italy -- 15th century.
Binding Terms (RBMS) Leather bindings -- Italy -- 15th century.

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Field Data
Image Caption Tooling (detail), INC V33 copy 1.
General Description A Paduan or Venetian "Sarcophagus" binding, ca Brown goatskin over wooden boards with blind tooling and brass fittings. Some repair (20th century).
Country / Style Italy, Padua?
Country / Style Italy, Venice?
Period ca. 1485
Call Number INC V33 copy 1
Provenance B. Ricci, who has written a list of Roman kings and emperors on an endleaf; what are presumably his arms (quarterly, 1 and 4, per pale argent and gules, hedgehog [in Italian riccio] passant; 2 and 3, argent, two crosses per fess azure) are emblazoned on sig. al recto. These are perhaps the arms of Ricci of Venice, which are not recorded by Crollalanza; purchased by H. C. Folger as part of the library of W. T. Smedley (b. 1851).
Author Valerius Maximus.
Title [Factorum et dictorum memorabilium libri IX] Valerii Maximi Factorum ac dictorum memorabilium liber ad Tyberium Caesarem ...
Created / Published Impressum Venetiis : [Giovanni and Gregorio de' Gregori?, not after 1485]
Hamnet URL
Technical Description Sewn on three raised slit alum-tawed straps with the front endleaves wrapped around the first section and given strips of vellum manuscript reinforcement. Flat spine with slight natural backing with leather linings set between the sewing supports. Compound endbands worked over a red alum-tawed core with primary sewing of linen thread; tied down through the leather lining at every other section. Secondary sewing worked in blue, yellow, and pink(?) with two supplementary thread cores running across the top and bottom of the previous sewing. Each board given inside bevel and laced on through channels cut off-center. The slips are held in place by two wooden pegs. The exposed covering leather is somewhat darker than the turn-ins. Tongue corners cut on the board. The headcap has been slit to accommodate endbands. (The tailcap is new.) One round brass boss remains in place on the upper cover with evidence of four others. Four of five bosses remain on the lower cover (the nail head of the missing boss is now visible). Three star rivets hold remnants of textile hasp straps, one at the head and tail and two at the fore-edge (one rivet is missing from the top strap). Each of the four triangular catch plates, with feathered decoration, on the lower cover is held in place by four pins with rounded raised heads. Author's name written in ink on fore-edge.
Dimensions 316 x 206 x 57 mm.
Decorative Description The central aedicule is worked with a four-line tool. (Curves made at the edges of the plinth and cornice would suggest the use of quite a small faced hand tool, perhaps with rounded ends.) A similar threeline tool may have been used to draw the two semicircular arches, possibly with the aid of a template. The whole is embellished with an "S" tool forming a rope-like pattern with a hollow dot and a small star. In the center of the arch a pyramid of knot work has been picked out with a small dot. A single fleur-de-lis forms a panel framed by a multi-line fillet. The same fillet is used on the outside border and turn-ins. The spine is divided into four compartments with lozenge and star decoration (the finishing in the top compartment is new).
Other Details The decoration is based on late Roman sarcophagi from the area of Ravenna. The motif was copied on bindings for the first time by the Veronese humanist, Felice Feliciano ( ), and was imitated in several cities in northeastern Italy between 1475 and Thirteen examples, not including this one, are listed by A. Hobson, Humanists and Bookbinders, pp The group of small stars at the upper inner corners of the frame would be consistent with a Paduan origin for the binding. What appears to be the same border tool was used on a copy of Diodorus Siculus, Bibliotheca, Venice 1476/7, in the Royal Library, Stockholm (Inc. 366).
Literature A. Hobson, Humanists and Bookbinders, pp ; Marinis, La Legatura, vol. Ill , pls. Bl, CCCCXXVII, CCCCLXXXVII-CCCCXCI.
Literature Folger 1:6 (Folger Shakespeare Library, Fine and historic bookbindings from the Folger Shakespeare Library, New York, 1992).
Binding Terms (RBMS) Blind tooled bindings -- Italy -- 15th century.
Binding Terms (RBMS) Bosses -- Italy -- 15th century.
Binding Terms (RBMS) Furniture -- Italy -- 15th century.
Binding Terms (RBMS) Goatskin bindings -- Italy -- 15th century.
Binding Terms (RBMS) Leather bindings -- Italy -- 15th century.

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Image Caption Back cover, STC 2114.
General Description Late 16th century English Bible with bosses and clasps.
Country / Style England
Period 16th century (late)
Call Number STC 2114
Provenance Gift of Rowland H. George.
Title Bible. English. Bishops. The holy Byble, conteynyng the olde and newe Testament. Set foorth by aucthoritie.
Created / Published [Imprinted at London : By Newgate Market, next vnto Christes Churche, by Richarde Iugge, printer to the Queenes Maiestie], 1575.
Hamnet URL
Dimensions 222 x 160 x 80 mm
Covering Material Dark brown calfskin, rebacked with stained beige calfskin.
Sewing Sewn on four single raised alum tawed supports laced at angles from left to right through oak boards. During the rebacking the boards were reversed, the original front board was used as the back board and vise versa.
Headbands New, brown fabric rolled over a cord core and stuck on.
End Papers New, single flyleaf.
Closures Two fore-edge clasps originally hinging from the front board and catching on the back (during rebacking the boards were reversed). Catch plates with three crowns stamped into the metal and one strap plate (with ornamentally flattened brass tube rivets) extant. Seven corner bosses with edge guards, (all with worn away half-dome dimples) encircled with chased annular dots around the dome; the borders were engraved with 'walking' lines. Only one center plate boss is extant with engraved 'walking lines'. All the rivets were cut brass nails. Evidence of brass edge strips parallel to the spine are now missing and the rivet holes are covered with leather patches, but are visible on the inside of the boards. The straps were single layers of tanned leather with no vellum reinforcement.
Decorative Description The covers were blind tooled with a four panel design with the frames tooled with variable width triple line fillets.
Binding Terms (RBMS) Blind tooled bindings -- England -- 16th century.
Binding Terms (RBMS) Bosses -- England -- 16th century.
Binding Terms (RBMS) Calf bindings -- England -- 16th century.
Binding Terms (RBMS) Clasps -- England -- 16th century.
Binding Terms (RBMS) Fillet tools -- England -- 16th century.
Binding Terms (RBMS) Furniture -- England -- 16th century.
Binding Terms (RBMS) Leather bindings -- England -- 16th century.
Binding Terms (RBMS) Raised bands -- England -- 16th century.
Binding Terms (RBMS) Rebacking.