The arts in the Middle Ages, and at the period of the Renaissance (1875)
Jacob, P. L., 1806-1884, Dafforne, James, d. 1880 · London : Chapman and Hall · leaf 540
tention being givento the binding, which was merely intended to preserve the volumes. Manydocuments bear witness to the great care and precision with which, incertain monasteries, books were bound and preserved. All sorts of skinswere employed in covering them when they had been once pressed… … PANEL OF A HOOK (OVKH. Bas-relief in Gold Repousse. Ninlli Onlun, in the Louvxe BOOKBINDING. 473 It must be admitted that we, perhaps, owe to their rich bindings, whichwere well calculated to tempt thieves, the destruction of a number ofvaluable manuscripts when towns or monasteries were sacked;…
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