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Biblia, das ist die gantze Heilige Schrifft
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Meuser, Caspar, Dresden (w003969)
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Biblia, das ist die gantze Heilige Schrifft
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Style: Armorial; Caption: Upper cover; Colour: Brown; Edge: Gilt, gauffered and painted
Date Binding: 16c
Medium Decorative Technique: Tooled in gold; Cover Material: Calf
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Shelfmark: Davis679
Place of creation Binding: Germany
Object history Text: 1575; Wittenberg; Harrer, Hans
Notes Meuser was court binder to the Elector of Saxony. All edges gilt, gauffered and painted (with Harrer's arms). Traces of 4 pairs of ties. Macchi states; Bound in Dresden after 1578 by Caspar Meuser for Hans Harrer. A similar binding is kept in Leipzig, University library on martin Luther, Der Psalter mit den Summarien, Leipzig, Ernst Vögelin, 1570, shelfmark Biblia 1347 (Deutsche Bucheinbände, n. 97).
References See M M Foot, The Henry Davis Gift, vol I, London, 1978, vol II, London, 1983.
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