Collaged remnants of this 1516 Golden Legend with red Letterpress, cupids in the margins and marginalia.

Who needs the OG title page anyway?

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Goat on a shield with letters GB

Book inside cover with notes and a shield with a rearing goat on it with the date 1583 and initials GB and many German and Latin variants of his full name. Aka Georg Bock!

GOAT Coat of Arms?

This book was not only owned by, but also clearly coveted by one Georg Böck (ie George Billygoat), who signed it at least three times! Germany, 1583.
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Red and gold binding with blue arms held by angels in the center

Detail of arms with a star above a triple hill

Detail of same blue coat of arms with star and hill, canned out on fore edge

Pope Clement XI portrait engraving, showing arms

That Coat of Arms?

Looks to belong to Pope Clement XI (as Pope 1700-1720)! The basic design is his family crest (Albani), topped with the tiara. Was this #hisbook?

Title page and frontispiece of Philips's Poems

#HisBook: a interesting copy of a 1678 edition of Katherine Philips's poems at University of Utah inscribed with "John Jubile Flinn Bought this Book out of respect to the Memory of the Author January 1st 1786" and a handcolored frontispiece #EarlyModern collections.lib.utah.edu/details?id=8...