Keywords: Latin Dauidis regii prophetæ Psalterium, vario genere carminis Latine redditum, ab illustrissimo Principe ac Domino, Dn. Mauritio, Hassiæ Landgrauio, etc. (M. Schmuck imprimebat- Smalcaldiæ, - Upper cover (c27e7).jpg Style Panel design Religious miscellaneous; Caption Upper cover; Colour White / cream; Edge Unspecified exhibition history Decorative Technique Tooled in blind Pierced parchment or vellum; Cover Material Parchment With the profile of Christ c 1600 Vellum over red silk decorated with cut-out compartments and blind tooling With an inscription on the flyleaf in the autograph of the translator on presentation of this copy to M Roydon and with MS verses in praise of the translator signed Francis Segar Thanks to Yael Hoz for pointing out the binding attribution object history Text 1593; Smalkalden; Unspecified object type Cc-zero place of creation Binding Germany place of discovery See M M Foot The history of bookbinding as a mirror of society London 1998 p 50 3 examples are included in L Bickell Bucheinbande des XV bis XVIII Jahrhunderts aus hessischen Bibliotheken verschiedenen Klo stern u Stiften der Palatina und der landgra fl hess Privatbibliothek entstammend Aufgenommen und beschrieben von Dr L Bickell etc pp 18 pl 42 Leipzig 1892 British Library image http //www bl uk/catalogues/bookbindings/LargeImage aspx RecordId 020-000002462 ImageId ImageId 40836 Copyright BL Latin Dauidis regii prophetæ Psalterium vario genere carminis Latine redditum ab illustrissimo Principe ac Domino Dn Mauritio Hassiæ Landgrauio etc M Schmuck imprimebat Smalcaldiæ 1593 Uploaded with GWToolset Latin Dauidis regii prophetæ Psalterium vario genere carminis Latine redditum ab illustrissimo Principe ac Domino Dn Mauritio Hassiæ Landgrauio etc M Schmuck imprimebat Smalcaldiæ - Upper cover c27e7 http //www webarchive org uk/bldatasets/bindings/5324_4 jpg Bookbinding 17th-century bookbinding British Library Bookbindings |