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The arts in the Middle Ages, and at the period of the Renaissance (1870)

Jacob, P. L., 1806-1884, Dafforne, James, d. 1880, tr · London, Chapman and Hall · leaf 549

An illustration from The arts in the Middle Ages, and at the period of the Renaissance, 1870, leaf 549 — sometimes leathern straps, sometimes metal clasps, sometimeshooks, to keep the volume firmly closed, and almost always nails, whoseround and projecting heads preserved the flat surface of the binding frombeing rubbed. In the year 1299, when the tax was imposed upon the inhabitants ofParis for the… … Fig. 380.—Large Painted Initial Letter in a Manuscript in the Royal Library, Brussels, showing the arrangementof the Binding, in enamelled Metal, of a book of the Gospels. (Ninth or Tenth Cenffcry.) BOOKBINDING. 477 University, the authorities of which placed them under the surveillance offour…

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