Keywords: Heures de Nostre Dame - Upper cover (Davis451).jpg Style Centre and cornerpiece made of small tools Pictorial Religious miscellaneous; Caption Upper cover; Colour Brown; Edge Unspecified exhibition history Decorative Technique Tooled in gold; Cover Material Goatskin includes morocco turkey etc Macchi states; c 1584 Paris à la fanfare and à branchages decoration Unusual painted centrepiece See Sale catalogue of Mrs G Whitney Hoff I p 63 n 101 pl XLIII on Heures de nostre dame à l'usage de Rome en latin et françois Paris Abel Angelier 1584 A similar central panel on a modified à la fanfare binding is to be seen in H M Nixon Broxbourne Library Styles and designs of bookbindings p 100- 102 n 49 on Euripides Tragoediae XIX Graece iunctim Latine Heidelberg typis Hieronymi Commelini 1597 For painted medallions on French Renaissance bindings see M -P Laffitte Manuscrits de la famille Vergèce p 25-31 object history Text 1584; 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 020-000004104 ImageId ImageId 41657 Copyright BL Heures de Nostre Dame Uploaded with GWToolset Heures de Nostre Dame - Upper cover Davis451 http //www webarchive org uk/bldatasets/bindings/6172_4 jpg Bookbinding 16th-century bookbinding British Library Bookbindings |