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 552
th centuries (Fig. 383). We shall limit ourselves to givinga description of some costly bindings, taken from the inventories of themagnificent libraries of the Dukes of Burgundy and of Orleans, now partlydestroyed, and partly scattered about among the great public collectionsof France and other… … Fig. 382.—Banner of the Corporation of Printers-Booksellers of Angers. embellished with gold and fiftv-eight large pearls, in a case made ofcamlet, with one large pearl and a cluster of small pearls; the romanceof the Moralité des Hommes sur le Ju (jeu) des Eschiers (the gameof chess), covered in…
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