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Binding by Nicholas Spierinck, 16th century

Blind-stamped calf over wooden boards by the Cambridge binder Nicholas Spierinck; rectangular frame with an intersecting roll featuring a wyvern, a lion, and a griffin separated by branches of foliage, with binder's mark and initials under the griffin (Oldham, AN.f(2)); inner panel filled with four vertical strips made of a repeated floral roll (Oldham, FL.a(1)); remains of clasps

Author: Thomas Netter
Title: Doctrinalis antiquitatum ecclesiae Iesu Christi liber quintus, ac tomus secundus de Sacramentis (Paris, 1521)
Shelfmark: H.5.10 (catalogue record)

16th centuryH.5.10bindingprovenance