COLLECTION NAME:
Early Printing Collection
Record
Image Number:
JRL233102821
Reference Number:
2864.1
Link to Catalogue:
Image Title:
Binding of book
Parent Work Title:
Oratio Reuerendi domini .A. de Shinucciis de Senis Episcopi Suanen[sis] ad Sanctissimum dominum dominum Innocentium papam octauum pro Re Publica Senen[se]..
Date Created:
18th century
Page/Sheet:
Upper cover
Description:
Eighteenth-century Harleian style full red goatskin over pasteboards; covers gilt-tooled with a wide border of double and single fillets, a repeated design of various floral and foliate tools around the inner edges, and a large central rounded lozenge-shaped ornament built up of various small floral and foliate tools, lines and dots.
Subject:
Bookbinding
Category of Material:
Printed
Sub-Category:
Bindings
Technique Used:
Gold tooling
Medium:
Gold leaf
Support:
Goatskin
Item Height:
220 mm
Item Width:
165 mm
Provenance:
Oxford, Edward Harley, Earl of, 1689-1741, former owner
Provenance:
Spencer, John Spencer, Earl, 1734-1783, former owner
Provenance:
Spencer, George John Spencer, Earl, 1758-1834, former owner
Rights Holder - Image:
The University of Manchester Library
Access Rights:
Notes:
Bound with 48 other incunables, mainly orations, printed between 1475-1500, most in Rome (one in Modena) by Stephan Plannck, Bartholomaeus Guldinbeck or Andreas Freitag.
Educational Notes:
Incunabula Cataloguing Project (Provenance), 2021-2025
Academic Project Lead:
Julianne Simpson
Academic Project Lead:
John Gandy
Academic Project Lead:
Ed Potten
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