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Sechsfachband
Title
Sechsfachband.
Production
Germany, 1600-1699.
Physical Description
1 volume : color ; 7 x 19 x 12 cm
Medium
leather
paper
wood
Notes
Title devised by cataloger.
Bookplate of J.W. Six.
Summary
German six-fold, backless puzzle binding, also known as a Vexierbuch, tease binding, or reliure à surprise. One cover gold-tooled brown leather over pasteboards, with red leather onlays; second cover brown leather over pasteboards, painted in imitation of gold tooling, now somewhat abraded. Fore edges gilt and gauffered with paintings of the four Evangelists, King David, and the Virgin and Child. Text block is blank. Three pastedowns from an unidentified 17th-century German manuscript.
Format
Other
Added to Catalog
September 19, 2022
References
Sechsfachband. General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.
Cite as
Sechsfachband. General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.
Subjects
Subjects (Local Yale)
Genre/Form
Backless bindings (Binding)
Fore-edge paintings (Binding)
Gauffered edges (Binding)
Manuscript waste (Binding)
Painted bindings (Binding)
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