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[Missal box.]

Title
[Missal box.]
Publication
[Paris?], [ca. 1490]

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TextBy appointment only Spencer Coll. French 1490Schwarzman Building - Print Collection Room 308

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Description
17 x 10 x 9cm. in case 19cm.
Subjects
Note
  • Wrought iron over wood; with lock and with rings to hold a carrying strap.
  • Cofferets or caskets of this type are known to have been used as dispatch or book boxes. For discussion and for pictures of two similar iron boxes, cf. Kup, K. Notes on a fifteenth-century cofferet. (In: The Connoisseur. London. v. 140 (1957) p. 62-66)
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Spencer Coll. French 1490
OCLC
131727291
Title
[Missal box.]
Imprint
[Paris?], [ca. 1490]
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