TWO NETHERLANDISH PANEL-STAMPED BINDINGS IN THE COLLECTIONS OF THE KÓRNIK LIBRARY Cover Image

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TWO NETHERLANDISH PANEL-STAMPED BINDINGS IN THE COLLECTIONS OF THE KÓRNIK LIBRARY

Author(s): Tomasz Zuzek
Subject(s): Cultural history, Museology & Heritage Studies, Visual Arts, Archiving, Social history, 16th Century, Sociology of Art, History of Art
Published by: Biblioteka Kórnicka PAN
Keywords: Netherlandish bookbinding; panel-stamped bindings; the Netherlands in the 16th century; bookbinder Master IP; the Gothic animals-in-foliage design;

Summary/Abstract: This paper presents two rare 16th-century panel-stamped bindings from the collections of the Kórnik Library. Th e fi rst one, decorated with an impression of a panel depicting the personifi cation of the Christian virtue of Hope (Spes), protects the printed book published in 1545. Th e binding was made by a Netherlandish bookbinder working in Leuven, called Master IP, identifi ed with Jacob Pandelaert (d. ab. 1563). Th e second binding presents a Gothic motif of animals-in-foliage and protects a printed book published in 1550. Th e authorship of the panel (the so-called de profundis) is attributed to a bookbinder working in the town of ’s-Hertogenbosch (fr. Bois-le-Duc), Geraert van der Hatart (d. ab. 1540/1541). Both these bindings testify to the fact that the holdings of the Kórnik Library include gems of the West-European bookbinding craft .

  • Issue Year: 2020
  • Issue No: 37
  • Page Range: 77-91
  • Page Count: 15
  • Language: Polish