The arts in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance (1886)
Jacob, P. L., 1806-1884, Armstrong, Walter, Sir, 1850-1918 · London : J.S. Virtue & Co. · leaf 445
libraries (Fig. 330), as somevolumes still in existence, with the rings through which passed the chainthat fastened them to the desk still on them, show. These catcnaii (chainedbooks) were generally Bibles and missals, bound in wood and heavily orna-mented with metallic corners, which, while placed… … Fig. 331.—Large Painted Initial Letter in a Manuscript in the Royal Librarj-, Brussels, showing the arrangementof the Biniing. in enamelled Metal, of a book of the Gospels. (Ninth or Tenth Centur}-.) BOOKBINDING. 377 of the eleventh and tw(^lfth centuries, the coverings of books in enamelledcopper…
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