| Goff Z-7 Zabarellis, Franciscus de, Lectura super Clementinis Venice: Bernardinus Benalius, 1497/8 f° Leaf: 405x270mm Ref: HC 16255; Pr 4892; BMC V 376; BSB-Ink Z-6 |
Huntington Library 99569 |
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| Notes: This binding and another in the Huntington Library (A-56, 141611), probably from the same shop and both wonderfully preserved, are good examples of the close and confusing relationship of English bindings with those from the Low Countries, especially Bruges. The overall design (fleur-de-lis within the lozenges of the diaper pattern, and the surrounding border of dragons in triangles) is common to bindings from both countries. Several bindings reproduced in the literature are remarkably similar to the Huntington copies. Mirjam Foot, in two essays reprinted in Studies in the History of Bookbinding, 1993, may lead to attributing these bindings to the Netherlands. Other scholars, namely G. D. Hobson and Howard Nixon, might favor a London attribution, and in fact point to these as possibly the work of Caxton’s binder (with the former Bruges connection). As is common with English bindings, the catches are on the lower boards in both Huntington copies. |
