Keywords: L'office de la Vierge Marie - Upper cover (c129mm4).jpg Style Semis background of small tools Macabre funerary motifs; Caption Upper cover; Colour Brown; Edge Unspecified exhibition history Decorative Technique Tooled in silver; Cover Material Goatskin includes morocco turkey etc The colour of the leather is in fact brown not red The silver tooling has turned black Bound for a member of the Compagnie des Confreres de la Mort For other French 16c bindings see Marie-Pierre Laffitte Fabienne Le Bars Reliures royales de la Renaissance Paris 1999 Macchi states; 10 known examples in public libraries and 1 in the private collection of M Wittock the list been compiled by Amédée Boinet Reliures à emblèmes macabres p 341-343 1 Bibliothèque du Louvre former Motteley collection Alfred Franklin Les Anciennes Bibliothèques de Paris 1870 p 149 destroyed during the Louvre Library fire ; 2 Mazarine Library Paris L -M Michon La reliure française pl XXIX ; 3 Lyons Library Exposition de reliures n 76 pl XVIII ; 4 Angers Library; 5 Former collection Pouiller- Ketele Bruxelles sale 15-17 may 1924 n 92 ; 6 Walters art Gallery L Gruel Manuel historique II 1905 p 91 ; 7 Former collection George Nestle-John J Baer Frankfurt am Main 1931 n 92 pl 10 ; 8 National Library Paris Rotschild collection Bibliothèque nationale de France Paris 80 reliures françaises p 3 n 38; É Picot Catalogue I p 2 n 3 A Hobson listed two more one in the Alençon Library see Patrimoine des bibliothèques de France Un guide des régions volume 9 p 23 too and the other sold as lot 289 in the Phillipps sale at Sotheby's 17 june 1935 They were produced c 1585 very probably in Clovis Eve royal binder workshop P Culot La reliure en France p 150-151 n 63 object history Text 1586; Paris; Compagnie des Confreres de la Mort 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 020-000002454 ImageId ImageId 40832 Copyright BL L'office de la Vierge Marie Uploaded with GWToolset L'office de la Vierge Marie - Upper cover c129mm4 http //www webarchive org uk/bldatasets/bindings/5322_4 jpg Bookbinding 16th-century bookbinding British Library Bookbindings |