Keywords: La commedia - Upper cover (Davis502).jpg Style Interlacing ribbon/strapwork Lettered cover eg intitals titles; Caption Upper cover; Colour White / cream; Edge Gilt gauffered and painted exhibition history Decorative Technique Painted; Cover Material Leather unspecified Ink ms notes upper flyleaf Upper paste down shows traces of metal label attachments Probably made for Diane de Poitiers Henri's mistress See W S Brassington Historic bindings in the Bodleian Library p 18-19 pl IX on Architecture ou art de bien bastir du Marc Vitruve Pollion autheur romain antique Paris Jacques Gazcan 1547 shelfmark Douce V Subtus I; H M Nixon Sixteenth century gold-tooled bookbindings p 140-144 n 36; p 144-148 n 37; Fac-similes of old book binding on Bartholomaei Camerarii Beneventani de Praedestinatione Dialogi Parisiis Ex typographia Matthaei Davidiis 1536 no pages ; P Needham Twelve centuries p 216-219 n 68 too Binding reproduced in La bibliothèque de feu Edouard Rahir Première partie p 15 n 66 For similar bindings see Bibliothèque nationale de France Paris Revue de la Bibliopthèque nationale n 5 Septembre 1982 p 44 fig 9 on Psalterium Daviticum materna lingua expositum Paris Antoine et Barthélemy Vérard about 1512-1515 shelfmark Rés p A 50 ; E Diehl Bookbinding I pl 36 For other bindings executed for D de Poitiers see J Porcher Les livres de Diane de Poitiers p 78-89; A collection of facsimiles n 19 20 For other French 16c bindings see Marie-Pierre Laffitte Fabienne Le Bars Reliures royales de la Renaissance Paris 1999 object history Text 1544; Venice; Henri II King of France 1519-1559 object type Cc-zero place of creation Binding France place of discovery Unspecified British Library image http //www bl uk/catalogues/bookbindings/LargeImage aspx RecordId 020-000004180 ImageId ImageId 41695 Copyright BL La commedia Uploaded with GWToolset La commedia - Upper cover Davis502 http //www webarchive org uk/bldatasets/bindings/6211_4 jpg Bookbinding 16th-century bookbinding British Library Bookbindings |