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| Keywords: -Breviary for the use of Toledo- Manuscript on parchment - Lower cover (Davis656).jpg Style Interlacing ribbon/strapwork Knotwork/ropework Mudejar Moorish inspired geometric; Caption Lower cover; Colour Brown; Edge Plain exhibition history Decorative Technique Tooled in blind Painted; Cover Material Goatskin includes morocco turkey etc Designs differ on upper and lower covers Upper cover Macchi states; Matilde Lopez Serrano suggests 4 groups of Mudejar binding - 1st group Moslem type with a large interlace star or hexagonal motifs interlaced and repeated; - 2nd group central gothic l motifs quadrilobed tools crosses lozenges escutcheons These can be repeated several times; - 3rd group no central motif but all over decoration in a large rectangle surrounded by one or more borders - 4th group later XV th century end - XVI th century beginning characterised by one or two large central circles decorated with small tools and a frame According to Serrano every group owes its characteristics more to the particular workshop than to its date As general rule however the oldest bindings depict squares and rectangles and few borders; those with geometrical motifs were produced later during the XV th or XVI th century This style derived from gothic friezes combined with other influences from the Islamic world originated and developed during the Reconquista period XI th -XV th century is the most characteristic of Spain It was carried out by artists called mudejares those who remained mainly Moorish or islamised Jewish people remained in Castille after the Christian reconquest In the reconquered towns Arab workers who continued to practice their high level skills eg leather tanning the Spanish-Moslem technique resulted in smooth and brilliant skins better adapted to tooling than rough cow- pig- stagskins used in Europe In all its forms the mudejar decoration presents purely abstract schemes according to Islamic rules M López Serrano La encuadernación española; F Macchi - L Macchi Il Dizionario illustrato p 321-322; R Miquel y Planas Restauración del Arte hispano-árabe p 16-21 object history Text late 15c; Toledo; Unspecified object type Cc-zero place of creation Binding Spain place of discovery M M Foot The Henry Davis Gift vol III London 2010 Works on Spanish bookbindings include Hispanic Society of America An Album of Selected Bookbindings New York 1967 by C L Penney; H Thomas Early Spanish Bookbindings London 1939 British Library image http //www bl uk/catalogues/bookbindings/LargeImage aspx RecordId 020-000002630 ImageId ImageId 40920 Copyright BL Breviary for the use of Toledo Manuscript on parchment Uploaded with GWToolset Breviary for the use of Toledo Manuscript on parchment - Lower cover Davis656 http //www webarchive org uk/bldatasets/bindings/5409_3 jpg Bookbinding 15th-century bookbinding British Library Bookbindings | ||||
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