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Binding Book of Hours Use of the Netherlands
1media/BoHN_Bind1.JPG2020-01-20T11:42:33-08:00Micaela Rodgers4f64ed17cdc860d24de738ffbad6fc87bc98886f354882plain2020-01-20T12:10:03-08:00Micaela Rodgers4f64ed17cdc860d24de738ffbad6fc87bc98886fContemporary binding in dark brown calf over wooden boards, 4 raised bands on back, creating 5 compartments, in each of which a small gilt ornamentation. Boards with triple blind-stamped line-borders inside which another set of triple blind-stamped line-borders with a small gilt ornamentation in each corner, on back board three of these ornamentations are missing due to the stamping used to create them, likewise a larger gilt central ornament missing on each board, showing the wooden board underneath. All four brass-pieces from the clasps are intact on the boards, but the actual ties are missing. The back has been professionally restored with leather in old style under parts of the sixteenth century leather in order to reinforce it. Binding tight with pieces of contemporary manuscript-leaves showing at the inside of boards.
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1media/Book_of_hours_netherlands_medium.jpgmedia/BoHNBackgroundf11r.jpgmedia/Book_of_hours_Netherlands.jpg2019-11-14T15:25:53-08:00Curtis Fletcher3225f3b99ebb95ebd811595627293f68f680673eBook of Hours, use of Netherlands, Groot Begijnhof van Leuven and/or GhentMicaela Rodgers21image_header9271482020-06-08T14:36:21-07:00Micaela Rodgers4f64ed17cdc860d24de738ffbad6fc87bc98886f