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French Decorative Bookbinding - Sixteenth Century


l'atelier des reliures LOUIS XII et FRANÇOIS Ier
the decorative bookbindings from the workshops of Louis XII and Francis I



Inventory - reliure No. 1


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(No. 1) - Catullus, Carmina, Ltons: Balthasar de Gabiana, [c. 1503], upper cover.

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Location - Rome, BNC Vitorio Emanuelle II, 58.7.C3.


see also:

Th. Gottlieb - Grolierstudien in Jahrbuch der Einbandkunst (1938), Page 24.

E. Dacier - L;atelier des reliures Louis XII, No. 1, Plate 3, in Les trésors des bibliothèques de France, tome V (1935), pages 7-40.

- Exposition de la reliure original (1959), Plate 1.

J. Guignard - Notes et hypothèses in Festschrift Earnst Kyriss (1961), page 198, fig. 2.





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