Keywords: Divae Catherinae Senensis. - Upper cover (Davis362).jpg Style Panel design; Caption Upper cover; Colour Brown; Edge Gilt gauffered exhibition history Decorative Technique Tooled in blind Tooled in gold; Cover Material Calf Bound in Paris by Simon Vostre c 1505-1515 Edges gilt and gauffered with large stylized fleurons possibly later Macchi states; first quarter century Paris bound by the Atelier Louis XII workshop apparently the first in France to use tooling in gold probably located in Paris About 45 known examples The royal Blois library books were transferred 1544 by François I to Fontainebleau É Dacier Les premières reliures 1933 pp 7-40 object history Text 1505; Bologna; Unspecified object type Cc-zero place of creation Binding France place of discovery See M M Foot 'The earliest known gold tooled bookbindings' in The New Bookbinder vol 20 2000 p17 See M M Foot The Henry Davis Gift Vol III London 2010 See Marie Pierre Lafitte Reliures royales Paris 2001; Lafitte Fabienne Le Bars Reliures royales de la Renaissance Paris 1999J Guignard L'atelier des reliures Louis XII p 202-239 Premières reliures parisiennes p 229-249 See J R Abbey Catalogue of valuable printed books and fine bindings 21-23 June 1965 n 549 pl 69; Sotheby Co London Catalogue june 22 nd 1936 n 112; J Guignard L'atelier des reliures Louis XII p 232-233 planche II n 5 British Library image http //www bl uk/catalogues/bookbindings/LargeImage aspx RecordId 020-000003940 ImageId ImageId 41575 Copyright BL Divae Catherinae Senensis Uploaded with GWToolset Divae Catherinae Senensis - Upper cover Davis362 http //www webarchive org uk/bldatasets/bindings/6090_4 jpg Bookbinding 16th-century bookbinding British Library Bookbindings |