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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. 27


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(No. 27) Fausto Andrelini, De pacifica Francorum successione. Manuscrit (Paris?) 1515, lower cover.
Reliure aux armes de France, Examplaire de dédicace à François Ier.

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This reproduction is from E. Dacier, L'atelier des reliures Louis XII (1933) pl. XIV a

Located in the Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris, ms. 8397.

see also: L.-M. Michonm Reliures executees pour François Ier dans Gazette des Beaux-Arts (1932), I, p. 314.





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