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Object
Artist |
binder :
artist QS:P170,Q56644726 |
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Description |
Small gilt-lettered red leather panel mounted on front paste-down endpaper, reading: Hic liber femineo corio convestitus est (“This book is bound in a woman’s skin”), inside a copy of Chirurgia è Graeco in Latinum conuersa (Paris, 1544), bound by Josse Schavye (1822-1905) Notice of Smithsonian Libraries's Catalog. This book could be bound in human skin, according to this inscription (source) An other book bound by the same binder (Josse Schavye) and also subsequently owned by the same collector (Belgian physician and bibliophile André Uytterhoeven (1799-1868)), had been bound by human skin, confirmed by peptide mass fingerprinting in 2015 : De humani corporis fabrica by Andreas Vesalius from Brown University. |
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Date |
1863 date QS:P571,+1863-00-00T00:00:00Z/9 |
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Medium | Leather | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Collection |
institution QS:P195,Q1609326 |
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Current location |
Dibner Library Lectures on the History of Science and Technology |
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Accession number |
RD30 .N53 1544 folio |
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Place of creation | City of Brussels | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Object history | André Uytterhoeven (1799-1868), former owner | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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DescriptionHic liber femineo corio convestitus est.jpg | |
Source | Internet Archive |
Author | Smithsonian Libraries |
Permission (Reusing this file) |
"Not in copyright." |
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