Opening of MS 1233

Today the Church of England remembers
Alcuin of York, Deacon, Abbot of Tours, d. 804.
Shown here is part of a 10th cent. leaf of Alcuin on the
Creed, used in the binding of Georg Dorn's Partitiones
in M.T. Ciceronis de Rhetorica libros quatuor (Lyon,
1554). [MS 1233]

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Part of Renaissance: Scotland and Europe exhibition at The National Library, Edinburgh.
Photo © The Tudor Age

*Please note that this exhibition runs until 21st April 2025*

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A highly-decorated gold-tooled binding, in brown calf, of a printed book from 1580.

The last leaf of an open book from 1580; the left is printed, with the inscription "Lucy Strong her booke" written on either side of the printer's mark (woodcut). The right side, a blank endpaper, has five coloured drawings of fruits (pears, blackberries, plums or damsons) with leaves attached to the stems.

The title-page of "The treasurie of the French tong: teaching the waye to varie all sortes of verbes" by Claudius Hollyband, printed in London in 1580. The endpaper on the left side has a coloured drawing of what looks like a broom (ie. twigs bundled at one end) pointing upwards.

This week's surprise book find @antiquaries.bsky.social: a lovely gold-tooled copy of a 1580 handbook of French verbs, with these charming 18th-century coloured drawings of fruits (and a broom?). Perhaps those of Lucy Strong, who signed "her booke" at the back.

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