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Title

 Bookbinding, c. 1631


Year

 [ca. 1631]


Type

 boekband, binding


Related term

 boekbanden, leer, sloten, kloosterbibliotheken


Period

 17e eeuw


Classification

 F: Bindkunst


Content

 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.


Original

 Germania Antiqua libri tres. / By Philippus Clüverius. - Lugduni Batavorum, ex off. Elzeviriana, 1631


available in

 Koninklijke Bibliotheek, Den Haag 40 E 5


@description

 Den Haag Koninklijke Bibliotheek


@reproduction

 Den Haag Koninklijke Bibliotheek