Keywords: Regalium Franciae libri duo. - Upper cover (Davis331).jpg Style Lozenge or diamond Floral Panel design; Caption Upper cover; Colour Black; Edge Red Painted exhibition history Decorative Technique Blocked in blind Blocked in silver; Cover Material Goatskin includes morocco turkey etc Bound in Paris c 1540 Edges red painted in gold with a pattern of leaves and fleurons outlined in black Traces of 2 pairs of ties Macchi states; c 1540-1550 Lawrence A Miller has attributed this binding to Etienne Roffet See http //www cyclopaedia org/virtual/bookbinding html scroll down object history Text 1538; Lyon; Unspecified object type Cc-zero place of creation Binding France place of discovery See H M Nixon Sixteenth Century gold tooled bindings in the Pierpont Morgan Library n7 See M M Foot The Henry Davis Gift Vol III London 2010 p59 Marie Pierre Lafitte Reliures royales Paris 2001; Lafitte Fabienne Le Bars Reliures royales de la Renaissance Paris 1999 pl 9 British Library image http //www bl uk/catalogues/bookbindings/LargeImage aspx RecordId 020-000003880 ImageId ImageId 41545 Copyright BL Regalium Franciae libri duo Uploaded with GWToolset Regalium Franciae libri duo - Upper cover Davis331 http //www webarchive org uk/bldatasets/bindings/6064_4 jpg Bookbinding 16th-century bookbinding British Library Bookbindings |