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bookshavepores

Paradise by Paul Hagon on Flickr.

memories-of-ancients

Gilded silver book cover for the Epistles, crafted in Ulm, Germany, dated 1506 with 19th century restorations.

from The British Museum

#glided silver book cover #c 1506 #germany

💬 0 🔁 690 ❤️ 891 · Elizabethan book cover worked in gold, silk and pearls on red velvet.

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#books #fairy tales

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alonewolfr

Leggere significa andare da nessuna parte, significa imbarcarsi, seduti sulla propria poltrona, per una navigazione immobile.

|| Michel Picart

nocturna7

Reading means going nowhere; it means embarking, while seated in your own armchair, on an unmoving voyage.

earthanthem

(via Library) Long Room in the Old Library of Trinity College Dublin

along-the-silkroad

Armenian Gospel with silver cover manuscript, 13th century; cover: dated 1691. MET (ID: 16.99) These jeweled, enameled, and gilt-silver repoussé covers for a gospel are examples of the work produced in the late seventeenth-century Armenian silversmith workshop of Kayseri. Both front and back cover are signed, informing us that they were made in Kayseri in 1691 by Astuatsatur Shahamir. The central image on the front cover depicts the Adoration of the Shepherds, and above, the magi following the star. Amid angels, the banner in the sky proclaims, "Glory to God in the highest and on Earth peace." The same composition of shepherds appears on two sets of gospel covers made in Kayseri by M. Karapet Malkhas, one dated 1671 (Mekhitarist Library, Vienna, MS 416) and the other dated 1691 (present location unknown). On the back is the Resurrection, showing Christ in a mandorla holding a bannered cross, surrounded by baroque cherubs and clouds. The green velvet spine is decorated with six garnets and numerous glass or crystal gems arranged in a diamond pattern. These covers were attached to a gospel copied and illuminated by a thirteenth-century scribe named Grigor, possibly from Cilicia. (MET)