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Bookbinding, c. 1631

year: [ca. 1631]

type: boekband
binding
detail: nee
related terms: boekbanden leer sloten kloosterbibliotheken
period: 17e eeuw
classification:
F: Bindkunst

contents: This imposing folio edition from the Elzeviers of Leiden was bound in a sturdy leather binding with copper fastenings. This type of regularly decorated binding is characteristic of monastic libraries in the Southern Netherlands in the seventeenth- century. This corresponds with the source of the book: it was the property of a Jesuit monastery in Antwerp.

origineel:
source: Germania Antiqua libri tres. / By Philippus Clüverius. - Lugduni Batavorum, ex off. Elzeviriana, 1631
available in: Koninklijke Bibliotheek, Den Haag 40 E 5

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