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| Keywords: De arte supputandi libri quattuor. - Upper cover (Davis384).jpg Style Medallion or plaquette Panel design; Caption Upper cover; Colour Brown; Edge Plain exhibition history Decorative Technique Tooled in blind Tooled in gold; Cover Material Calf Bound in Paris in the 1540s With a medallion head in the centre of both covers showing Mars on the upper cover and Lucretia on the lower cover Rebound with original covers and spine strip retained Macchi states Shelfmark C 108 g 8 shows the head and shoulders of a bearded man Tarquin wearing a fashionable head within a medallion too Only three English bindings produced for Thomas Wotton are decorated with a similar medallion M Breslauer Inc Catalogue 111 p 86-89 An example is owned by the Cambridge University Library Geroge Dudley Hobson Bindings in Cambridge libraries p 68-69 pl XXIII B on The Lamentation of a Synner London Whitchurch 1547 et alia; shelfmark Syn 8 54 100 Small round medaillon heads were popular on French and English bindings object history Text 1538; Paris; Unspecified object type Cc-zero place of creation Binding France place of discovery See M M Foot The Henry Davis Gift Vol III London 2010 British Library image http //www bl uk/catalogues/bookbindings/LargeImage aspx RecordId 020-000003980 ImageId ImageId 41595 Copyright BL De arte supputandi libri quattuor Uploaded with GWToolset De arte supputandi libri quattuor - Upper cover Davis384 http //www webarchive org uk/bldatasets/bindings/6110_4 jpg Bookbinding 16th-century bookbinding British Library Bookbindings | ||||
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