COLLECTION NAME:
LUNA: Folger Bindings Image Collection
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BINDINGS~1~1
LUNA: Folger Bindings Image Collection
Collection
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Image Caption:
Front cover, INC V33 copy 1.
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Front cover, INC V33 copy 1.
Image Caption
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General Description:
A Paduan or Venetian "Sarcophagus" binding, ca. 1485. Brown goatskin over wooden boards with blind tooling and brass fittings. Some repair (20th century).
general_description
A Paduan or Venetian "Sarcophagus" binding, ca. 1485. Brown goatskin over wooden boards with blind tooling and brass fittings. Some repair (20th century).
General Description
false
Country / Style:
Italy, Padua?
country_style
Italy, Padua?
Country / Style
false
Country / Style:
Italy, Venice?
country_style
Italy, Venice?
Country / Style
false
Period:
ca. 1485
style_period
ca. 1485
Period
false
Call Number:
INC V33 copy 1
classification
INC V33 copy 1
Call Number
false
Provenance:
B. Ricci, who has written a list of Roman kings and emperors on an endleaf; what are presumably his arms (quarterly, 1 and 4, per pale argent and gules, hedgehog [in Italian riccio] passant; 2 and 3, argent, two crosses per fess azure) are emblazoned on sig. al recto. These are perhaps the arms of Ricci of Venice, which are not recorded by Crollalanza; purchased by H. C. Folger as part of the library of W. T. Smedley (b. 1851).
provenance
B. Ricci, who has written a list of Roman kings and emperors on an endleaf; what are presumably his arms (quarterly, 1 and 4, per pale argent and gules, hedgehog [in Italian riccio] passant; 2 and 3, argent, two crosses per fess azure) are emblazoned on sig. al recto. These are perhaps the arms of Ricci of Venice, which are not recorded by Crollalanza; purchased by H. C. Folger as part of the library of W. T. Smedley (b. 1851).
Provenance
false
Author:
Valerius Maximus.
author
Valerius Maximus.
Author
false
Title:
[Factorum et dictorum memorabilium libri IX] Valerii Maximi Factorum ac dictorum memorabilium liber ad Tyberium Caesarem ...
title
[Factorum et dictorum memorabilium libri IX] Valerii Maximi Factorum ac dictorum memorabilium liber ad Tyberium Caesarem ...
Title
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Created / Published:
Impressum Venetiis : [Giovanni and Gregorio de' Gregori?, not after 1485]
created_published
Impressum Venetiis : [Giovanni and Gregorio de' Gregori?, not after 1485]
Created / Published
false
Hamnet URL:
repository_number
http://shakespeare.folger.edu/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?BBID=90713
Hamnet URL
false
Technical Description:
Sewn on three raised slit alum-tawed straps with the front endleaves wrapped around the first section and given strips of vellum manuscript reinforcement. Flat spine with slight natural backing with leather linings set between the sewing supports. Compound endbands worked over a red alum-tawed core with primary sewing of linen thread; tied down through the leather lining at every other section. Secondary sewing worked in blue, yellow, and pink(?) with two supplementary thread cores running across the top and bottom of the previous sewing. Each board given inside bevel and laced on through channels cut off-center. The slips are held in place by two wooden pegs. The exposed covering leather is somewhat darker than the turn-ins. Tongue corners cut on the board. The headcap has been slit to accommodate endbands. (The tailcap is new.) One round brass boss remains in place on the upper cover with evidence of four others. Four of five bosses remain on the lower cover (the nail head of the missing boss is now visible). Three star rivets hold remnants of textile hasp straps, one at the head and tail and two at the fore-edge (one rivet is missing from the top strap). Each of the four triangular catch plates, with feathered decoration, on the lower cover is held in place by four pins with rounded raised heads. Author's name written in ink on fore-edge.
technical_description
Sewn on three raised slit alum-tawed straps with the front endleaves wrapped around the first section and given strips of vellum manuscript reinforcement. Flat spine with slight natural backing with leather linings set between the sewing supports. Compound endbands worked over a red alum-tawed core with primary sewing of linen thread; tied down through the leather lining at every other section. Secondary sewing worked in blue, yellow, and pink(?) with two supplementary thread cores running across the top and bottom of the previous sewing. Each board given inside bevel and laced on through channels cut off-center. The slips are held in place by two wooden pegs. The exposed covering leather is somewhat darker than the turn-ins. Tongue corners cut on the board. The headcap has been slit to accommodate endbands. (The tailcap is new.) One round brass boss remains in place on the upper cover with evidence of four others. Four of five bosses remain on the lower cover (the nail head of the missing boss is now visible). Three star rivets hold remnants of textile hasp straps, one at the head and tail and two at the fore-edge (one rivet is missing from the top strap). Each of the four triangular catch plates, with feathered decoration, on the lower cover is held in place by four pins with rounded raised heads. Author's name written in ink on fore-edge.
Technical Description
false
Dimensions:
316 x 206 x 57 mm.
display_dimensions
316 x 206 x 57 mm.
Dimensions
false
Decorative Description:
The central aedicule is worked with a four-line tool. (Curves made at the edges of the plinth and cornice would suggest the use of quite a small faced hand tool, perhaps with rounded ends.) A similar threeline tool may have been used to draw the two semicircular arches, possibly with the aid of a template. The whole is embellished with an "S" tool forming a rope-like pattern with a hollow dot and a small star. In the center of the arch a pyramid of knot work has been picked out with a small dot. A single fleur-de-lis forms a panel framed by a multi-line fillet. The same fillet is used on the outside border and turn-ins. The spine is divided into four compartments with lozenge and star decoration (the finishing in the top compartment is new).
decorative_description
The central aedicule is worked with a four-line tool. (Curves made at the edges of the plinth and cornice would suggest the use of quite a small faced hand tool, perhaps with rounded ends.) A similar threeline tool may have been used to draw the two semicircular arches, possibly with the aid of a template. The whole is embellished with an "S" tool forming a rope-like pattern with a hollow dot and a small star. In the center of the arch a pyramid of knot work has been picked out with a small dot. A single fleur-de-lis forms a panel framed by a multi-line fillet. The same fillet is used on the outside border and turn-ins. The spine is divided into four compartments with lozenge and star decoration (the finishing in the top compartment is new).
Decorative Description
false
Other Details:
The decoration is based on late Roman sarcophagi from the area of Ravenna. The motif was copied on bindings for the first time by the Veronese humanist, Felice Feliciano (1433-1479), and was imitated in several cities in northeastern Italy between 1475 and 1500. Thirteen examples, not including this one, are listed by A. Hobson, Humanists and Bookbinders, pp. 69-70. The group of small stars at the upper inner corners of the frame would be consistent with a Paduan origin for the binding. What appears to be the same border tool was used on a copy of Diodorus Siculus, Bibliotheca, Venice 1476/7, in the Royal Library, Stockholm (Inc. 366).
other_details
The decoration is based on late Roman sarcophagi from the area of Ravenna. The motif was copied on bindings for the first time by the Veronese humanist, Felice Feliciano (1433-1479), and was imitated in several cities in northeastern Italy between 1475 and 1500. Thirteen examples, not including this one, are listed by A. Hobson, Humanists and Bookbinders, pp. 69-70. The group of small stars at the upper inner corners of the frame would be consistent with a Paduan origin for the binding. What appears to be the same border tool was used on a copy of Diodorus Siculus, Bibliotheca, Venice 1476/7, in the Royal Library, Stockholm (Inc. 366).
Other Details
false
Literature:
A. Hobson, Humanists and Bookbinders, pp. 68-74; Marinis, La Legatura, vol. Ill , pls. Bl, CCCCXXVII, CCCCLXXXVII-CCCCXCI.
references
A. Hobson, Humanists and Bookbinders, pp. 68-74; Marinis, La Legatura, vol. Ill , pls. Bl, CCCCXXVII, CCCCLXXXVII-CCCCXCI.
Literature
false
Literature:
Folger 1:6 (Folger Shakespeare Library, Fine and historic bookbindings from the Folger Shakespeare Library, New York, 1992).
references
Folger 1:6 (Folger Shakespeare Library, Fine and historic bookbindings from the Folger Shakespeare Library, New York, 1992).
Literature
false
Binding Terms (RBMS):
Blind tooled bindings -- Italy -- 15th century.
binding_terms__rbms_
Blind tooled bindings -- Italy -- 15th century.
Binding Terms (RBMS)
false
Binding Terms (RBMS):
Bosses -- Italy -- 15th century.
binding_terms__rbms_
Bosses -- Italy -- 15th century.
Binding Terms (RBMS)
false
Binding Terms (RBMS):
Clasps -- Italy -- 15th century.
binding_terms__rbms_
Clasps -- Italy -- 15th century.
Binding Terms (RBMS)
false
Binding Terms (RBMS):
Fillet tools -- Italy -- 15th century.
binding_terms__rbms_
Fillet tools -- Italy -- 15th century.
Binding Terms (RBMS)
false
Binding Terms (RBMS):
Furniture -- Italy -- 15th century.
binding_terms__rbms_
Furniture -- Italy -- 15th century.
Binding Terms (RBMS)
false
Binding Terms (RBMS):
Goatskin bindings -- Italy -- 15th century.
binding_terms__rbms_
Goatskin bindings -- Italy -- 15th century.
Binding Terms (RBMS)
false
Binding Terms (RBMS):
Leather bindings -- Italy -- 15th century.
binding_terms__rbms_
Leather bindings -- Italy -- 15th century.
Binding Terms (RBMS)
false