Enciclopedia Cattolica

LEGATURA

Binding

Volume VII · p. 631 · 1951

English translation · Testo originale italiano

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LEGATURA - L. in avorio ed argento inciso (sec. XII) - Modena, Archivio del Duomo.
LEGATURA - L. in avorio ed argento inciso (sec. XII) - Modena, Archivio del Duomo.

Machine translation of the 1948–1954 Italian original. The original text is authoritative.

BINDING — L. in carved ivory and silver (12th c.) — Modena, Archivio del Duomo.

A scene, often of hunting, sometimes of daily life with human figures, is chased on the flap; it is then varnished. This technique, which reached its greatest splendor in the 16th–17th centuries, gives the effect of a genre painting. V. tavv. LXVII–LXVIII.

BIBL.: P. Colombo, Il legatore di libri, Torino 1913; D. Cocherell, Bookbinding, London 1920; H. Loubier, Der Büchleinband, Leipzig 1926; G. Colombini, La rilegatura del libro, Sanpierdarena 1926; G. Ricci, Dell’arte del libro, Bologna 1927; A. Del Vico, L’arte nella l., Roma 1931.