. The book, its history and development. ous cypher, as it hasalready been fully discussed elsewhere,* but I may say thatHenris own device before he succeeded to the throne was acrescent with the legend Nec impleat totem orbem. Anunstrung bow as well as theother emblems of Dianathe huntress undoubtedlyaj)pears on bindings madefor this king. I am ratherinclined to think that thesedevices of bow, crescents,and quiver, which show onthe bindings made forHenri as well as on thosemade for Diane de Poic-tiers, may really have beenseparately chosen, andhave no necessary connec-tion with each other. On
. The book, its history and development. ous cypher, as it hasalready been fully discussed elsewhere,* but I may say thatHenris own device before he succeeded to the throne was acrescent with the legend Nec impleat totem orbem. Anunstrung bow as well as theother emblems of Dianathe huntress undoubtedlyaj)pears on bindings madefor this king. I am ratherinclined to think that thesedevices of bow, crescents,and quiver, which show onthe bindings made forHenri as well as on thosemade for Diane de Poic-tiers, may really have beenseparately chosen, andhave no necessary connec-tion with each other. Onthe bindings made forDiane de Poictiers the bowis strung. Henri HI. was an eccen-tric king, and it has been said that among other arts he learntthat of bookbinding. He lost his ladylove, and ever after-wards grieved her loss. His bindings show the device of theconfraternity of the White Monks, to which order he belonged,and a skull and Spes jiea deus. But besides these gloomy * AiHjhi-Saxoii Review and BarlirKjton Muijazine, July, Fig. 123.—French binding by NicholasEve, 1578. Made for Henri III. 1-M) THE BOOK: ITS HISTORY AND DEVELOPMENT. bindings we owe some of the finest bindings ever made inFrance to the art of Henris royal binder, Nicholas Eve. The French order of St. Michel was founded by LouisXL, in 1466, in place of an older order De IEtoile,which had been instituted by Jean IL Henri HL, in 1578,founded a new order, the Saint Esprit, and among theState papers of the time is a note to the eflect that NicholasEve bound forty-two copies of theOnloiuiances de Vordre du SaiiictEaprit for the king. One of thesebooks is now in the British is bound, as described in the officialnote, in orange morocco, and agreesin all respects with that remarkable style, known as ala Fanfare, became common inFrance about the end of the sixteenthcentm-y. They are generally attri-buted to Clovis Eve, who was Eelieurdu Roy (159()), but there is really noauthority f
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