. Historic bindings in the Bodleian Library, Oxford : with reproductions of twenty-four of the finest bindings. ^u v. W^.1 :——? \ Plate XVI. HEURES A LUSAIGE DE ROME. Printed on vellum by Philippe Pigouchet, 141) vellum, stamped and gold tooled. PLATE XVI. 35 heads. Catherine dei Medicis monograms, double and on either side of the central ornament. The elliptical stampsrepresent, first, that on the obverse—the Assumption of Our Lady;second, that on the reverse—the Crucifixion, with the Blessed Virginand S. John standing beneath the Cross. The events here depictedare very
. Historic bindings in the Bodleian Library, Oxford : with reproductions of twenty-four of the finest bindings. ^u v. W^.1 :——? \ Plate XVI. HEURES A LUSAIGE DE ROME. Printed on vellum by Philippe Pigouchet, 141) vellum, stamped and gold tooled. PLATE XVI. 35 heads. Catherine dei Medicis monograms, double and on either side of the central ornament. The elliptical stampsrepresent, first, that on the obverse—the Assumption of Our Lady;second, that on the reverse—the Crucifixion, with the Blessed Virginand S. John standing beneath the Cross. The events here depictedare very usual subjects for the adornment of the covers of devotionalbooks. The Crucifixion is perhaps the most common of all centralornaments; especially was it used towards the middle of the 16thcentury, and onwards. Compare the Gough Missal 162, Plate XV.,and an Old Testament and Psalms printed in Paris in 1586, nowin the British Museum. This latter volume was once the propertyof Henry III. of France, as appears from the tooling on the back,viz., the arms of France, the motto Spes Mea Deus, and deathsh
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