Bookbinding, c. 1600 - c. 1625
Record status
Individual type · partial
Period
c. 1600 - c. 1625
Silver bookbinding containing a notebook. The boards are decorated with fretwork and engravings. Attached to the inside are a sundial, a compass and a mirror. Contents: paper and silver plates with the engraved portraits of the princes Maurice and Frederick Henry. The Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, holds this object as BK-1961-5; its record gives material recorded as silver (metal); measurements length 9.5 cm x width 5.7 cm x thickness 2.9 cm. Description translated from the museum's Dutch catalogue text; details are those of this museum object, and how far it represents a wider type has not been independently verified.
Evidence at a glance
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- Photograph views
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- Catalogue references
- 0
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Physical characteristics
- Material
- silver (metal)
- Measurements
- length 9.5 cm x width 5.7 cm x thickness 2.9 cm
- Dimensions museum
- length 9.5 cm x width 5.7 cm x thickness 2.9 cm
Identification
- Original title
- Boekband
- Holding institution
- Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam
- Museum object number
- BK-1961-5
- Museum classification
- binding
Catalogue references
No catalogue numbers recorded. Numbers are only published once transcribed from a verified edition of a standard catalogue — they are never inferred.
Research required
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