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 547
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… … !• ij;, j8o.—Large Painted Initial Letter in a Manuscript in the Royal I,ibrary, Brussels, showin<j the arrangementof the Hin Jinij, in enamelled Metal, of a book of the Gospels. (Ninth or Tenth Century.) BOOKBINDING. 4 7 7 University, tlie authorities of whicli placed them under the…
Art, Medieval · Art, Renaissance
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