. Historic bindings in the Bodleian Library, Oxford : with reproductions of twenty-four of the finest bindings. r, or platinum,without hollows or prepared enclosures; the colours becametransparent or translucent by fusion. This method was employedchiefly during the 13th, 14th, and 15th centuries; but it was revivedin the 18th century, and applied to various small articles ofbijouterie, and with certain modifications it still flourishes at was the chief seat of the art of enamelling, from the 13thto the 15th century, and the enamels produced there wereextensively used as devotion
. Historic bindings in the Bodleian Library, Oxford : with reproductions of twenty-four of the finest bindings. r, or platinum,without hollows or prepared enclosures; the colours becametransparent or translucent by fusion. This method was employedchiefly during the 13th, 14th, and 15th centuries; but it was revivedin the 18th century, and applied to various small articles ofbijouterie, and with certain modifications it still flourishes at was the chief seat of the art of enamelling, from the 13thto the 15th century, and the enamels produced there wereextensively used as devotional pictures, triptychs, and beautiful work of art was given by Sir Robert Cotton toWilliam Butler, , 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 WORLD TO THECHRISTIAN ERA. Large folio MS. on paper. Written in 1459. Brown leather WITH BRASS CORNERS. [MS. Douce 367.] Measurements: 16J in. x \i\ in. Central panel, \\\ in. x 7 in. Number of bands, he binding we have now to describe is the finestspecimen of 15th century wrought leatherpreserved among the treasures of the 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 ofcuir boiiilli, although the method of producingthe ornament is similar to that employed upon that remarkably strongand light material. In this binding there are heavy boards of greatthickness and substantial metal corners, clasps, and describing the motif of the design it may be well to indicatethe manner in which the ornament was produced, a manner employed .chiefly in the towns of Germany and the Netherlands. The thickwell-tanned leather would be damped before being worked. Thenthe design would be drawn upon the surface and the outlinescarefully cut with a sharp k
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