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[BINDING] – LORENZO MALIPIERO, a dated Venetian chestnut morocco binding, [Venice], 1563.
A lovely dated Mamluk and Ottoman-inspired 16th-century commissione binding by the so-called ‘Arabesque Outline Tool Binder’, active in Venice in the 1560s.
234 x 170mm. Venetian binding by the Arabesque Outline Tool Binder, 1563: gold-tooled chestnut morocco over pasteboards, gilt and blind fillet border, spine with single and double bands, compartments tooled in blind (spine end frayed, edges scuffed, lacking fabric ties).
Provenance: Lorenzo Malipiero is documented as Podestà of Conegliano in 1564. It is possible that the present binding would have held the commissione appointing him to that position.
The Arabesque Outline Tool Binder, a shop first identified by Schunke and dubbed the ‘Leermauresken-Meister’, was active in the 1560s and into the early 1570s. Around 30 known works of this bindery still survive (see I. Schunke, ‘Venezianische Renaissance-Einbände. Ihre Entwicklung und ihre Werkstätten’, Studi di bibliografia e di storia in onore di Tammaro de Marinis, Verona, 1964, vol. 4, pp. 123-200; A. Hobson & P. Culot, Italian and French 16th-century bookbindings, Brussels 1991, p.47; L. Nuvoloni, ‘Commissioni dogali: Venetian bookbindings in the British Library’, 'For the love of binding', Studies in bookbinding history presented to Mirjam Foot, London, 2000, pp. 81-109).
A lovely dated Mamluk and Ottoman-inspired 16th-century commissione binding by the so-called ‘Arabesque Outline Tool Binder’, active in Venice in the 1560s.
234 x 170mm. Venetian binding by the Arabesque Outline Tool Binder, 1563: gold-tooled chestnut morocco over pasteboards, gilt and blind fillet border, spine with single and double bands, compartments tooled in blind (spine end frayed, edges scuffed, lacking fabric ties).
Provenance: Lorenzo Malipiero is documented as Podestà of Conegliano in 1564. It is possible that the present binding would have held the commissione appointing him to that position.
The Arabesque Outline Tool Binder, a shop first identified by Schunke and dubbed the ‘Leermauresken-Meister’, was active in the 1560s and into the early 1570s. Around 30 known works of this bindery still survive (see I. Schunke, ‘Venezianische Renaissance-Einbände. Ihre Entwicklung und ihre Werkstätten’, Studi di bibliografia e di storia in onore di Tammaro de Marinis, Verona, 1964, vol. 4, pp. 123-200; A. Hobson & P. Culot, Italian and French 16th-century bookbindings, Brussels 1991, p.47; L. Nuvoloni, ‘Commissioni dogali: Venetian bookbindings in the British Library’, 'For the love of binding', Studies in bookbinding history presented to Mirjam Foot, London, 2000, pp. 81-109).
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