Keywords: Idyllia ... Epigrammata ... Bipennis & Ala. -and- Idyllia ... Latino carmine reddita, Helio Eobano Hesso interprete. - Upper cover (Davis333).jpg Style Hand motif 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 the Pecking Crow Binder c 1535-1540 Tooled in gold with a hand holding a spray of lillies as used on Fugger bindings surmounted by a crown with fleur-de-lys c108i4 is similar Edges gilt and gauffered to pattern of curving branches and flower vase; traces of red paint Macchi states; c 1550 Paris bound for Marcus Fugger The flowered central bunch with a little bird probably copied from a tool used by the Pecking crow binder workshop also called dextrocherium from latin dexter and greek cheir-cheiros hand is an image M Laird Some Sixteenth-Century Bindings p 309 pl III of heraldic origin tooled on a group of Parisian bidings group executed c 1550 Michael Laird lists not exhaustively some 10 examples Idem p 308-311 ; see P Needham Twelve Centuries p 204 too For a flowered central bunch without a little bird see Pierre Berès Paris Manuscrits enluminés et livres rares n 26 on Gabriel Du Puy-Herbault Sur les Épistres et Évangiles des cinquantetrois Dimenches de l'année Paris Jehan de Roigny 1553; Librairie Sourget Manuscrits enluminés et livres précieux Catalogue XV p 97-99 n 30 on Mathieu Marie Bayard Boiardo Le permier second troisième livre de Roland l'amoureux Paris Etienne Groulleau et Benoist Prévost pour Vincent Gaultherot 1549-1550; Librairie Sourget Chartres Manuscrits enluminés et livres précieux 1230-1957 Catalogue XXIII p 110-111 n 33 on P de Ronsard Les 4 premiers livres des Odes de Ronsard Paris Guillaume Cavellat 1550 This motif appears on Spanish XVI th century bindings too Cl L Penney An album of selected bookbindings pl XXII on Ejecutoria Granada 1577 object history Text 1531; Basel; 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 020-000003884 ImageId ImageId 41547 Copyright BL Idyllia Epigrammata Bipennis Ala and Idyllia Latino carmine reddita Helio Eobano Hesso interprete Uploaded with GWToolset Idyllia Epigrammata Bipennis Ala and Idyllia Latino carmine reddita Helio Eobano Hesso interprete - Upper cover Davis333 http //www webarchive org uk/bldatasets/bindings/6066_4 jpg Bookbinding 16th-century bookbinding British Library Bookbindings |