COLLECTION NAME:
LUNA: Folger Bindings Image Collection
mediaCollectionId
BINDINGS~1~1
LUNA: Folger Bindings Image Collection
Collection
true
Image Caption:
front cover
view_description
front cover
Image Caption
false
General Description:
Late 17th century Dutch "horn" binding with Sir Andrew Fontaine's (1676-1753) family armorial crest of an elephant on the spine. Paulo van Uchelen (1641 or 1642-1702) copy. Most likely bound by Albertus Magnus (1642-1689), See H. de la Fontaine Verwey. "The binder Albert Magnus and the collectors of his age," Quaerendo I,3 (1971) p. 175.
general_description
Late 17th century Dutch "horn" binding with Sir Andrew Fontaine's (1676-1753) family armorial crest of an elephant on the spine. Paulo van Uchelen (1641 or 1642-1702) copy. Most likely bound by Albertus Magnus (1642-1689), See H. de la Fontaine Verwey. "The binder Albert Magnus and the collectors of his age," Quaerendo I,3 (1971) p. 175.
General Description
false
Country / Style:
Netherlands
country_style
Netherlands
Country / Style
false
Period:
17th century (late)
style_period
17th century (late)
Period
false
Call Number:
DL45 M1 I7 1565 Cage (folio)
classification
DL45 M1 I7 1565 Cage (folio)
Call Number
false
Provenance:
Sir Andrew Fontaine, 1676-1753
provenance
Sir Andrew Fontaine, 1676-1753
Provenance
false
Provenance:
Paulo van Uchelen, 1641 or 1642-1702
provenance
Paulo van Uchelen, 1641 or 1642-1702
Provenance
false
Author:
Olaus, Magnus, Archbishop of Uppsala, 1490-1557.
author
Olaus, Magnus, Archbishop of Uppsala, 1490-1557.
Author
false
Title:
[Historia de gentibus septentrionalibus. Italian] Historia delle genti et della natura delle cose settentrionali / da Olao Magni ... descritta in XXII libri ; nuouamente tradotta in lingua toscana ; Opera molto diletteuole per le varie & mirabili cose, molto diuerse dalle nostre, che in essa si leggono ; con vna tauola copiosissima delle cose piu notabili, in quella contenute.
title
[Historia de gentibus septentrionalibus. Italian] Historia delle genti et della natura delle cose settentrionali / da Olao Magni ... descritta in XXII libri ; nuouamente tradotta in lingua toscana ; Opera molto diletteuole per le varie & mirabili cose, molto diuerse dalle nostre, che in essa si leggono ; con vna tauola copiosissima delle cose piu notabili, in quella contenute.
Title
false
Created / Published:
In Vinegia : Appresso I Giunti, 1565.
created_published
In Vinegia : Appresso I Giunti, 1565.
Created / Published
false
Hamnet URL:
repository_number
http://shakespeare.folger.edu/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?BBID=109313
Hamnet URL
false
Dimensions:
318 x 215 x 51 mm
display_dimensions
318 x 215 x 51 mm
Dimensions
false
Covering Material:
calfskin vellum
materials
calfskin vellum
Covering Material
false
Sewing:
sewn on six double raised hemp cord supports laced straight thought the boards
technique
sewn on six double raised hemp cord supports laced straight thought the boards
Sewing
false
Headbands:
green silk thread with a front bead sewn over a flat core
headbands
green silk thread with a front bead sewn over a flat core
Headbands
false
Edge Treatment:
speckled red and brown
edge_treatment
speckled red and brown
Edge Treatment
false
End Papers:
two blank flyleaves and a paste-down with a 1/3 sheet guard underneath
end_papers
two blank flyleaves and a paste-down with a 1/3 sheet guard underneath
End Papers
false
Decorative Description:
The covers are gilt with a two panel design with the frames tooled with double line fillets the outer border is stopped at the corners with a rounded square stamp with four dots. At angles in the outer panel is a gilt Marques coronet stamp. The spine is divided into seven panels with single gilt lines tooled above and below the raised bands. The title is inked in the second panel. The other panels have an elongated ornamental gilt stamp. At the head and tail is a gilt diced panel. In the top panel a diamond shaped green leather label with a gilt elephant, the crest of Sir Andrew Fontaine has been glued over the tooling.
decorative_description
The covers are gilt with a two panel design with the frames tooled with double line fillets the outer border is stopped at the corners with a rounded square stamp with four dots. At angles in the outer panel is a gilt Marques coronet stamp. The spine is divided into seven panels with single gilt lines tooled above and below the raised bands. The title is inked in the second panel. The other panels have an elongated ornamental gilt stamp. At the head and tail is a gilt diced panel. In the top panel a diamond shaped green leather label with a gilt elephant, the crest of Sir Andrew Fontaine has been glued over the tooling.
Decorative Description
false
Binding Terms (RBMS):
Fillet tools -- Netherlands -- 17th century.,Gold tooled bindings -- Netherlands -- 17th century.,Raised bands -- Netherlands -- 17th century.,Vellum bindings -- Netherlands -- 17th century.
binding_terms__rbms_
Fillet tools -- Netherlands -- 17th century.,Gold tooled bindings -- Netherlands -- 17th century.,Raised bands -- Netherlands -- 17th century.,Vellum bindings -- Netherlands -- 17th century.
Binding Terms (RBMS)
false