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16th-century German binding: detail of central panel of left board

Contemporary full blind-tooled pig over indented angled-edge wooden boards; left board has central panel with image of Judith carrying a sword and Holofernes' head (with caption: HOLOFERNI CAPVT ABST PER MA IVD 1560) above date 1565, surrounded by a border of smaller rectangular images: Christ (with caption: DATA EST MICHI OM), King David (DE FRVCTV VENTRI [with N reversed]), St. Paul (with caption: APPARVIT BENIGNI [with Ns reversed]), St. John the Baptist (with caption: ECCE ANGNVS [sic] DEI [with Ns reversed]).

 

Penn Libraries call number: GC5 K7498 552a All images from this book

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