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 551
wo silver-gilt clasps, boundin blue, with a golden eagle with two heads and red talons, to which isattached a little silver-gilt instrument for turning over the leaves, withthree escutcheons of the same arms, covered with a red velvet chemise.^ * * Garni de deux fermaulx dargent, dorez, armoiez… … Iig. 383.—Fragment of an engraved and stamped liinding in an unknown Material (Fifteenth Centur>-), representing the mystical Chase of the Unicorn, which is taking refuge in the lap of the Virgin. (Public Library, Rouen. BOOKBINDING. 481 The chemise was a sort of pocket in whicli certain…
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