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COMPARATIVE IMPLEMENTOLOGY

French Decorative Bookbinding - Sixteenth Century

Atelier I B - Binding Example 8

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Now we come to Gid190 this has the same rouletes as Gid173 however the layout has changed, going from schema 31 to schema 11, this is a more modern design as also indicated by the date of 1524 perhaps the binding was made even a few years after that date. In Comparative Diagram 1 we can see how the early bindings were mainly schema 31.


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Comparative Diagram 1 - Bindings from the I B atelier with approximate dates.
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You can see in the data shown above for binding 190 that the schema is shown as number 11. In the beginning of Denise Gids 1984 Tomb II she has illustrated 53 schema on 6 pages, below I have reproduced the first 2 pages containing 18 schema, click on this image to see an enlargement in the standard black and white format.



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Comparative Diagram 2 - Schemas des decores, Denise Gid 1984 T. II .
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Virtual binding 190
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