COLLECTION NAME:
LUNA: Folger Bindings Image Collection
mediaCollectionId
BINDINGS~1~1
LUNA: Folger Bindings Image Collection
Collection
true
Image Caption:
Inside front cover, NA2515 .V8 1513 Cage.
view_description
Inside front cover, NA2515 .V8 1513 Cage.
Image Caption
false
General Description:
A Roman binding, ca. 1513. Brown goatskin over pasteboards decorated in blind. Repaired and resewn (20th century?).
general_description
A Roman binding, ca. 1513. Brown goatskin over pasteboards decorated in blind. Repaired and resewn (20th century?).
General Description
false
Country / Style:
Italy, Rome
country_style
Italy, Rome
Country / Style
false
Period:
ca. 1513
style_period
ca. 1513
Period
false
Call Number:
NA2515 .V8 1513 Cage
classification
NA2515 .V8 1513 Cage
Call Number
false
Provenance:
An early owner has annotated this book and written inside the upper cover an inscription found on "an old wall in Verona"; owner's name erased at the foot of the title page; "Franciscus Evangelista Physimedicus 1690," signature on title page (a note on the front endpaper records that he practiced medicine at Borgo San Sepolcro); purchased by H. C. Folger as part of the library of W. T. Smedley (b.1851).
provenance
An early owner has annotated this book and written inside the upper cover an inscription found on "an old wall in Verona"; owner's name erased at the foot of the title page; "Franciscus Evangelista Physimedicus 1690," signature on title page (a note on the front endpaper records that he practiced medicine at Borgo San Sepolcro); purchased by H. C. Folger as part of the library of W. T. Smedley (b.1851).
Provenance
false
Author:
VITRUVIUS POLLIO
author
VITRUVIUS POLLIO
Author
false
Title:
VITRUVIUS ITERUM ET FRONTINUS.
title
VITRUVIUS ITERUM ET FRONTINUS.
Title
false
Created / Published:
Florence Filippo Giunta 1513
created_published
Florence Filippo Giunta 1513
Created / Published
false
Technical Description:
Resewn onto three semi-recessed cords. Original pastedowns and two endpapers tipped on. Flat spine. Pink edges. New headand tailbands worked in brown silk. Original corners mitered. Evidence of two textile fore-edge and single head and tail ties.
technical_description
Resewn onto three semi-recessed cords. Original pastedowns and two endpapers tipped on. Flat spine. Pink edges. New headand tailbands worked in brown silk. Original corners mitered. Evidence of two textile fore-edge and single head and tail ties.
Technical Description
false
Dimensions:
169 x 104 x 32 mm.
display_dimensions
169 x 104 x 32 mm.
Dimensions
false
Decorative Description:
Triple fillet border and intersecting panel. A knot or rope pattern tool forms a border to the panel which is decorated with an ogive centerpiece, tooled in two halves, and fleurons. Spine tooled with a single-line pallet with saltires in each of the four compartments. A fillet decorates the turn-ins.
decorative_description
Triple fillet border and intersecting panel. A knot or rope pattern tool forms a border to the panel which is decorated with an ogive centerpiece, tooled in two halves, and fleurons. Spine tooled with a single-line pallet with saltires in each of the four compartments. A fillet decorates the turn-ins.
Decorative Description
false
Other Details:
This binding is by an anonymous workshop that also bound a Greek manuscript (Vat. gr. 67) and three printed books in the Vatican library.
other_details
This binding is by an anonymous workshop that also bound a Greek manuscript (Vat. gr. 67) and three printed books in the Vatican library.
Other Details
false
Literature:
Folger 12:1 (Folger Shakespeare Library, Fine and historic bookbindings from the Folger Shakespeare Library, New York, 1992).
references
Folger 12:1 (Folger Shakespeare Library, Fine and historic bookbindings from the Folger Shakespeare Library, New York, 1992).
Literature
false
Literature:
Marinis, La Legatura, vol. I, no. 519; vol. III, nos. 2765, 2767, 2769.
references
Marinis, La Legatura, vol. I, no. 519; vol. III, nos. 2765, 2767, 2769.
Literature
false
Binding Terms (RBMS):
Blind tooled bindings -- Italy -- 16th century.
binding_terms__rbms_
Blind tooled bindings -- Italy -- 16th century.
Binding Terms (RBMS)
false
Binding Terms (RBMS):
Fillet tools -- Italy -- 16th century.
binding_terms__rbms_
Fillet tools -- Italy -- 16th century.
Binding Terms (RBMS)
false
Binding Terms (RBMS):
Goatskin bindings -- Italy -- 16th century.
binding_terms__rbms_
Goatskin bindings -- Italy -- 16th century.
Binding Terms (RBMS)
false
Binding Terms (RBMS):
Leather bindings -- Italy -- 16th century.
binding_terms__rbms_
Leather bindings -- Italy -- 16th century.
Binding Terms (RBMS)
false
Binding Terms (RBMS):
Turn-ins -- Italy -- 16th century.
binding_terms__rbms_
Turn-ins -- Italy -- 16th century.
Binding Terms (RBMS)
false