. Historic bindings in the Bodleian Library, Oxford : with reproductions of twenty-four of the finest bindings. he beautiful Book of Hours, printed inParis, for Nicholas Higma and Simon Vostre,is remarkable for the variety of its embellish-ments ; the borders in particular are fine;they contain two Dances of Death, besidesother subjects, and some of the largerengravings are signed. As set forth in thetitle, this is a Spanish Book of Hours;unfortunately it is undated, but it undoubtedly belongs to the earlyportion of the 16th century, and the binding is contemporarywith the book. In the Bibliot
. Historic bindings in the Bodleian Library, Oxford : with reproductions of twenty-four of the finest bindings. he beautiful Book of Hours, printed inParis, for Nicholas Higma and Simon Vostre,is remarkable for the variety of its embellish-ments ; the borders in particular are fine;they contain two Dances of Death, besidesother subjects, and some of the largerengravings are signed. As set forth in thetitle, this is a Spanish Book of Hours;unfortunately it is undated, but it undoubtedly belongs to the earlyportion of the 16th century, and the binding is contemporarywith the book. In the Bibliotheque Nationale, some bindings of the time ofFrancis I., display the same arabesque ornament in conjunction withthe royal badge, the salamander, the initial F, fleur-de-lys androyal shield. In the example before us, the boards are covered with light brownleather; the centre and corners are deeply impressed, and upon the. ? rm ,. LAS HORAS DE NUESTRA SENORA. SPANISH. In brown leather, painted and gilt. Plate VI PLATE VI. 13 depressed surfaces, which are thickly gilded, graceful Saracenic raisedpatterns, coloured black, appear; the broad borders surrounding thedepressions are also coloured black; the remainder of the surface ofthe leather retains its natural brown tan, and is thickly sprinkledwith gold dots, while the effect is heightened by the gold beingcovered with a coat of glossy varnish. The back of the volume isbeautifully tooled with small Saracenic ornaments, similar to thoseintroduced into Western Europe from Venice by Holbein. Thesprinkling of gold dots, too, marks an epoch in decorative book-binding. This innovation, it is said, appeared upon Venetianbindings about the year 1475, speedily spread northwards andwestwards, and reached the French capital a few years later. PLATE VII. LATIN EPIGRAMS ADDRESSED BY ROBERTWHITINTON TO CARDINAL WOLSEY. PRE-SENTATION COPY. Small folio MS. on vellum.
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