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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