Keywords: Benedictio dei patris c-u angelis suis sit super me am-e, etc. - Upper cover (c41b2).jpg Style Cherubs head Religious miscellaneous Semis background of small tools; Caption Upper cover; Colour Unspecified; Edge Unspecified exhibition history Decorative Technique Tooled in gold; Cover Material Leather unspecified Late 16 early 17c Note the spine without raised bands the à l'ancienne border featured by three concentric fillets thereof two approached and the corners cherubs within branchages Bibliothèque de Troyes Reliures du dix-septième siècle p 19 n 19 shelfmark REL C 16 ; Burlington Fine Arts Club Exhibition of bookbindings p 47 pl LVI on Paulus Melissus Schediasmata Poetica Lutetiae Parisiorum 1586 owned by the Queen; Det danske Kunstindustrimuseums udstilling 1906 p 63 n 44 on Marco Guazzo Cronica Venezia 1553; W Y Fletcher Foreign Bindings in the British Museum pl 36; G D Hobson Les reliures à la fanfare p 38 fig 43; J B Oldham Shrewbury School Library Bindings p 123 pl XVIII on Antiquitatum romanarum Pauli Mannucci liber de senatu Venice 1581 shelfmark K VIII 54 T; H B Wheatley Les reliures remarquables du Musée Britannnique p 78-79 pl XXXV on L'histoire des faicts gestes et conquestes des Roys Princes Seigneurs et peuple de France Paris Frederic Morel 1581 - see Davis 446 even silver decorated this motif is available on silver decorated bindings too - Librairie Sourget Cent livres précieux de 1469 à 1914 n 32 on Sette libri di satire di M Ariosto H Bentivogli L Alemanni P Nelli Ant Vinciguerra Far Sansovino e d'altri scrittori Venice Vidali 1573 with Henri III coat-of-arms provided cover indicate this binding was produced at least during the XVI th second half century Still used in the XVIII th century J R Abbey Catalogue of valuable printed books and fine bindings 21-23 June 1965 p 225 lot 578 pl 73 The au semé decoration appears currently on XVII th century French bindings object history Text 1503; Paris; Unspecified object type Cc-zero place of creation Binding France place of discovery Unspecified British Library image http //www bl uk/catalogues/bookbindings/LargeImage aspx RecordId 020-000006588 ImageId ImageId 42899 Copyright BL Benedictio dei patris c u angelis suis sit super me am e etc Uploaded with GWToolset Benedictio dei patris c u angelis suis sit super me am e etc - Upper cover c41b2 http //www webarchive org uk/bldatasets/bindings/4041_4 jpg Bookbinding 16th-century bookbinding British Library Bookbindings |