Keywords: - Upper cover (c47k1).jpg Style Armorial Semis background of small tools; Caption Upper cover; Colour Brown; Edge Unspecified exhibition history Decorative Technique Tooled in gold; Cover Material Calf First half century Paris provided with widow Marie de Medicis coat-of-arms and cypher after her husband Henri IV of France death in 1610 F Macchi- L Macchi Dizionario illustrato della legatura p 95 A couple of very similar bindings are attributed to the Ève atelier Bibliothèque Raphaël Esmerian p 77 79 n 49 on text Fr Hilarion de Coste Les éloges et vies des Reyns Princesses Dames et Demoiselles illustres ¦ Avec l'explication de leurs devises emblèmes hyeroglyphes et symboles Paris ches Sebastien Cramoisy 1630; p 80-81 n 50 on text Antoine de Pluvinel Maneige royal Paris G Le Noir 1623 See M Breslauer Inc Catalogue 110 p 130; Burlington Fine Arts Club Exhibition of bookbindings p 51 pl LXIII on De Castre Le vie du bien-heureux Jehan de Dieu Paris 1609 owned by J Toovey; Y Devaux Dix siècles p 101; Librairie Sourget Chartres Manuscrits enluminés et livres précieux 1280-1930 Catalogue XXI p 236-237 n 90 on Honoré Urfé La vraye astree de Messire Honoré d'Vrfé Paris Veuuve Olivier 1627; Librairie Sourget Chartres Manuscrits enluminés et livres précieux Catalogue XXVI p 173-175 n 56 too For an example provided at same time with her arms and those of Henri IV see Librairie Sourget Chartres Manuscrits enluminés et livres précieux 1476-1922 Catalogue XX p 51-53 n 25 on Missale romanum Venice 1552; Librairie Sourget Chartres Livres précieux Catalogue XXII p 82-83 n 35 on Coeffetaeu L'histoire des souverains pontifes des empereurs et des roys chrestiens depuis S Pierrejusqu'à notre siècle Paris Sébastien Cramoisy 1614 object history Text 1583; Frankfurt; Marie de Medicis Queen Consort of Henri IV King of France 1573-1642 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 020-000006686 ImageId ImageId 42948 Copyright BL Unspecified Uploaded with GWToolset - Upper cover c47k1 http //www webarchive org uk/bldatasets/bindings/4093_4 jpg Bookbinding 16th-century bookbinding British Library Bookbindings |