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| Keywords: Ius civile manuscriptorum librorum ... emendatum, et perpetuis notis illustratum - Upper cover (Davis628).jpg Style Biblical scene Panel design Protestant reformers; Caption Upper cover; Colour White / cream; Edge Sprinkled exhibition history Decorative Technique Tooled in blind; Cover Material Leather unspecified 4raised spine bands With a portrait of Luther signed G B on the upper cover and a portrait of Melanchthon on the lower cover Decorated with brown paint Blue-green edges sprinkled fore edge Macchi states; Bound by Gregor Bernutz in Wittenberg in the third quarter of the 16th century Brown painted Kaiser Rare Books Limited London Catalogue two p 62 n 36 offered comparable example in 2001 vol II of a series of XII vol I is at the BL Wittenberg binders rarely accentuated the blind stamped relief with brown paint probably because the white colour was connected with the protestant idea of redemption Some other volumes of this series are known Volume VI in the Badische Landesbibliothek in Karlsruhe shelfmark 68 A 3017 RE see Franz A Schmitt Kostbare Einbände p 48-49 with the same title inscription in the hand of Joachim Langius from Herrlinger Land near Hannover and the celebrated German scholar Johann Albert Fabricius 1668-1736 author of the Biblioteca Latina Lange and Fabricius studied at the same time in Leipzig where this volume probably changed hands Fabricius crossing out the name of the former owner Volume XII with the same provenance i e Lange and Fabricius sold at Zisska München 17 october 2000 n 829 object history Text 1567; Antwerp; Unspecified object type Cc-zero place of creation Binding Germany place of discovery See M M Foot The Henry Davis Gift vol II London 1983 British Library image http //www bl uk/catalogues/bookbindings/LargeImage aspx RecordId 020-000004592 ImageId ImageId 41901 Copyright BL Ius civile manuscriptorum librorum emendatum et perpetuis notis illustratum Uploaded with GWToolset Ius civile manuscriptorum librorum emendatum et perpetuis notis illustratum - Upper cover Davis628 http //www webarchive org uk/bldatasets/bindings/6476_4 jpg Bookbinding 16th-century bookbinding British Library Bookbindings | ||||
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