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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. 11


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(No. 11) Coustumes... d'Auvergne, Paris, J. Petit, Clermont-Ferrand, L. Martin, 1511 lower cover.

Note: Guignard places this in his list as number 11, however Dacier states that chronologically, it may predate 8 and 9

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This reproduction is from E. Dacier, Une treizième reliure... dans Les tresors des Bibliothèques de France
tome V (1935) p. 186-192, pl. LXV No. 9. Plate X


Located in Chantilly, Musée Condé, XII F3.





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