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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