MAKE A MEME View Large Image Upper cover (Davis332).jpg Style Armorial Panel design; Caption Upper cover; Colour Brown; Edge Plain exhibition history Decorative Technique Tooled in blind Tooled in silver; Cover Material Calf Bound in Lyon for Benoit Le Court with his ...
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Keywords: De incertitudine et vanitate scientiarum declamatio invectiva. - Upper cover (Davis332).jpg Style Armorial Panel design; Caption Upper cover; Colour Brown; Edge Plain exhibition history Decorative Technique Tooled in blind Tooled in silver; Cover Material Calf Bound in Lyon for Benoit Le Court with his coat of arms c 1540-1550 Macchi states; c 1550 The books of his extensive library all bear the coat-of-arms usually tooled in silver About 30 known examples 4 in the library of Lyons 1 in the Vienna national Library T Gottlieb KK Hofbibliothek Bucheinbände pl 38a 1 in the Milanese Trivulziana Library 5 in the Mazarine Library Paris Bibliothèque Mazarine Paris Catalogue des reliures françaises n 59 367 387 644 bis 601 1 in the National Library Paris J Toulet L'école lyonnaise de reliure p 143 fig 133 1 in the Vichy Municipal Library Jean Toulet L'école lyonnaise de reliure p 143 fig 132 Four others are listed in Belin's catalogue Riches reliures n 416-419 see Jean Toulet L'école lyonnaise de reliure p 143 fig 135 Benoît le Court's bindings are of particular interest as undoubted Lyonnese covers dating about 1540-1550 They demonstrate how very different a real Lyonnese binding of that time was from the elegant productions with coloured mosaics and interlaced strapwork known as Lyonnese manufacturings but probably Parisian E Ph Goldschmidt Gothic and Renaissance bookbindings vol I Text 2 Catalogue raisonné p 278-279 n 202 203 See Librairie Sourget Chartres Manuscrits enluminés et livres précieux Catalogue XVII p 94-98 n 24 on Le jardin de plaisance et fleur rethorique Paris Antoine Vérard 1502; Livres des XVe XVIe siècles dans leurs reliures originales p 127 n 342 pl 36 on Speroni Dialoghi Venice 1543 too 20 bindings were produced for this bibliophile by the workshop called atelier au compas D Gid Un atelier Lyonnais vers 1550 p 117-131 object history Text 1537; Colgone; Benoit Le Court of Lyons 1500-1566 object type Cc-zero place of creation Binding France place of discovery See M M Foot The Henry Davis Gift Vol III London 2010 British Library image http //www bl uk/catalogues/bookbindings/LargeImage aspx RecordId 020-000003882 ImageId ImageId 41546 Copyright BL De incertitudine et vanitate scientiarum declamatio invectiva Uploaded with GWToolset De incertitudine et vanitate scientiarum declamatio invectiva - Upper cover Davis332 http //www webarchive org uk/bldatasets/bindings/6065_4 jpg Bookbinding 16th-century bookbinding British Library Bookbindings
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