Historic bindings in the Bodleian Library, Oxford : with reproductions of twenty-four of the finest bindings (1891)
Brassington, William Salt, 1859-1939, Bodleian Library · London : Sampson Low, Marston and Co. · leaf 75
, triptychs, and book-covers.This beautiful work of art was given by Sir Robert Cotton toWilliam Butler, M.D., of Cambridge, in 1614, and to the Bodleian,July 15th, 1648, by Dame Anne Sadler, wife of Ralph Sadler, ofStonden, Herts. H PLATE V. A GERMAN CHRONICLE OF EVENTS FROMTHE BEGINNING OF THE… … he binding we have now to describe is the finestspecimen of 15th century wrought leatherpreserved among the treasures of the Bodleian.It is hand-wrought leather and engravedmetal work of the latter half of the 15thcentury, German certainly, and perhaps producedby a Nuremberg artist. It is not made…
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