. The earliest Western goldtooled binding. Italian (Florence), c. 1400. Although tooled mostly with blind stamps, the narrow centrepiece designs are built up with a single repeated stamp in gilt. On a manuscript breviary of the Use of the Benedictine abbey of the Badia at Florence, c. 1400. According to recent scholarship it is the earliest bookbinding in the West Manuscript breviary. between 1399 and 1401. Bodleian Libraries, Manuscript breviary 9

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