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Title

 Binding, Amsterdam, c. 1665


Year

 ca. 1665


Type

 boekband, binding


Related term

 boekbanden, luxebanden, snedenschilderingen, beslag, sloten


Period

 17e eeuw


Classification

 F: Bindkunst


Content

 Bookbinding executed in tortoiseshell with gilt silver joints, furniture and fastenings. At the time of the Amsterdam master bookbinder, Albert Magnus, the edge was discovered as a means of giving luxury bindings even more opulence. The edge of this book is an example.


Original

 Libro de oraciones de mez y la orden de Hanukah, y Purim. - Amsterdam, 5423 [1663]


available in

 Koninklijke Bibliotheek, Den Haag 345 G 10


@description

 Den Haag Koninklijke Bibliotheek


@reproduction

 Den Haag Koninklijke Bibliotheek