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Jaharis Byzantine Lectionary, Tempera, gold, and ink on parchment; leather binding, Byzantine
Byzantine
ca. 1100
Doct. Johan Arndts, dess gottseligen und hocherleuchteten Lehrers Paradijss Gärtlein : welches voller christlichen Tugend-Gebete erfüllet, Johan Arndts, Silver bookbinding, Stockholm: Joh. Jacob Genath, 1696
Johan Arndts
1696
Aedes Barberinae, Cornelis Bloemaert  Dutch, Paper, ink; red Morocco binding, gold tooled, French
Cornelis Bloemaert
Teti, Count Girolamo
ca. 1650, mid-18th century
Les Échappemens à repos comparés aux echappemens à recul; et Examen des dernières observations de Monsieur de La Lande, Jean Jodin  Swiss, Paper, leather, French
Jean Jodin
1755
Les Status de l'Ordre du St. Esprit (Paris, 1724), Paper; red Morocco binding, French, Paris
French, Paris
ca. 1724
Observations sur les Antiquites de la ville d'Herculanum, Avec quelques reflexions sur la Peinture et la Sculpture des Anciens, Charles Nicolas Cochin II  French, Paper, leather, French
Charles Nicolas Cochin II
Jérôme Charles Bellicard
1754
Histoire du Roi Henri Le Grand, Hardouin de Perefixe  French, Paper, leather, French
Hardouin de Perefixe
1767
Bookbinding with Animals in a Landscape, Leather and papier-maché; painted, gilded, and lacquered
mid-16th century
Qur'an Bookbinding Inset with Turquoise, Leather; stamped, painted, gilded, and inset with turquoise
16th century
Qur'an Bookbinding with Floral Arabesques and an Inscription from the Hadith, Leather; stamped, tooled, and gilded
early 17th century
Bookbinding, Leather; stamped, painted, punched, and gilded
18th–19th century
Bookbinding Element, Copper; cast
16th century
Flap of a Bookbinding (Jild-i kitab), Leather, paper; painted, gilded, and lacquered
16th century
Bookbinding (Jild-i kitab), Leather; stamped and gilded
17th century
Binding and Text-Block for the Mantiq al-Tayr (Language of the Birds), Farid al-Din `Attar  Iranian, Binding: Leather, gold, and color; carved, impressed, and gilded<br/>Text-block: Ink, opaque watercolor, silver, and gold on paper
Farid al-Din `Attar
ca. 1600
Printed Book with Silva Nuptialis Bonis Referta Non Modicis, Giovanni Nevizzano, Printed on paper, brown calf leather binding (tooled), French
Giovanni Nevizzano
J. Kerver
1521
Bible, Binding: leather (stamped & tooled) with engraved brass fittings, ink printed on paper, 1st folio hand colored in tempera, metal leaf, and shell gold, German
German
1477 (printing); 1478 (binding)
Mishneh Torah, Master of the Barbo Missal  Italian, Tempera and gold leaf on parchment; leather binding, North Italian
Multiple artists/makers
ca. 1457
Explication des cent estampes qui représentent différentes nations du Levant avec de nouvelles estampes de cérémonies Turques qui ont aussi leurs explications, Le Hay  French, Paper: engraved and hand colored; bound in red morocco leather, French
Le Hay
Jacques Collombat
Book: 1715; binding ca. 1755–60
Plaque with Christ in Majesty and the Four Evangelists, Tempera, ink, and metal leaf on parchment; leather, leather binding with ivory, Ottonian
Ottonian
1000–1100
Mercure de France, Leather, paper, French, Paris
French, Paris
1771
The Bible, Robert Barker , London, 1602, Silk and metal thread on canvas, British
Robert Barker
ca. 1602
Bookbinding of repeat foliate pattern, William Sheldon, Wool, silk, silver-metal-wrapped thread, containing a seventeenth-century printed book, British, possibly Barcheston or Bordesley
William Sheldon
possibly made between 1561 and 1613
Bookbinding, Silk, British
British
ca. 1643
Bookbinding, French
French
1776
Incidents of the War, Unknown, 1/2 blue-black goatskin binding with green textured cloth sides and a gold-tooled tan calf label on the front board
Unknown
1861
Bookbinding, Leather on laminated paper board, painted and lacquered
19th century
Bookbinding, Leather on laminated paper board.
17th century
Bookbinding, Leather on laminated paper board
17th century
Bookbinding, Leather on laminated paper board
17th century
Bookbinding, Leather; tooled, stamped, and gilded
14th century
Bookbinding (Jild-i kitab), Leather, papier-maché, and gold
early 16th century
Bookbinding (Jild-i kitab), Leather; gilded
15th century
Bookbinding (Jild-i kitab), Pasteboard; painted and lacquered
19th century
Peg for a Bookbinding, Bone; incised and inlaid with paint
5th–7th century
Peg for a Bookbinding, Bone; incised, tinted, and inlaid with paint
5th–7th century
Peg for a Bookbinding, Bone; incised, tinted, and inlaid with paint
5th–7th century
Flap of a Bookbinding (Jild-i kitab), Leather; painted,  gilded, and lacquered
17th century
Bookbinding (Jild-i kitab), Pasteboard; painted and lacquered
19th century
Bookbinding (Jild-i kitab), Pasteboard; painted and lacquered
19th century