The arts in the middle ages, and at the period of the renaissance (1870)
Jacob, P. L., 1806-1884 · London, Bickers and son · leaf 571
h which passed thechain that fastened them to the desk. These catenati (chained books)were generally Bibles and missals, bound in wood and heavily ornamented* Antiphonaries—books containing the responses, &c.,used in Catholic church-services.—[Ed.] 3 p +74 BOOKBINDING. with metallic corners ;… … Fig- 378.—Binding in Gold, adorned with precious Stones which covered a Book of the Gospels of theEleventh Century, representing Jesus Crucified, with the Virgin and St. John at the Foot of the Cross. (Musee du Louvre). of the eleventh and twelfth centuries, the coverings of books in…
Art, Medieval · Art, Renaissance
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