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| Keywords: Der eilfste Teil der Bucher ... D. Mart. Luth. - Upper cover (Davis691).jpg Style Panel design; Caption Upper cover; Colour Brown; Edge Gilt and gauffered exhibition history Decorative Technique Tooled in gold; Cover Material Goatskin includes morocco turkey etc The centre panel on the upper cover has a portrait of Luther The panel on the lower cover shows a portrait of Melanchthon Macchi states; Bound by Thomas Stelbogen for Nikolaus von Ebeleben in Leipzig in 1559 When von Ebeleben's library was sold it contained about 400 editions mainly works especially bound for him which he had acquired in France and Italy The bindings are dated and show how the Grolier style arrived in Bologna through students and scholars After his return to Germany he asked his German binders to decorate the covers of his books according to the French and Italian fashion e g a binding produced by Jakob Weidlich from Dresden on a Luther text vol I-VI The remaining vols X-XII however were decorated in a typically German Renaissance style In Ebeleben's library bindings were more valuable than their texts M von Arnim Einbandkunst n 53 object history Text 1558; Wittenberg; Ebeleben Nikolaus von object type Cc-zero place of creation Binding Germany place of discovery See M M Foot The Henry Davis Gift vol I London 1978 vol II London 1983 British Library image http //www bl uk/catalogues/bookbindings/LargeImage aspx RecordId 020-000004682 ImageId ImageId 41946 Copyright BL Der eilfste Teil der Bucher D Mart Luth Uploaded with GWToolset Der eilfste Teil der Bucher D Mart Luth - Upper cover Davis691 http //www webarchive org uk/bldatasets/bindings/6521_4 jpg Bookbinding 16th-century bookbinding British Library Bookbindings | ||||
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