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A Romanesque binding -- Ehrman's most expensive purchase. French, 12th century. Reddish brown sheepskin over wooden boards, decorated with a combination of individual tools depicting animals and grotesques. Against fierce competition, Albert Ehrman bought it at the Lucius Wilmerding sale in New York in October 1951 for £6,000. Wilmerding had paid E. P. Goldschmidt £300 for the book in 1934. A larg…
Subject
- Bindings
Subject
- Bindings
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- http://bodley30.bodley.ox.ac.uk:8180/luna/servlet/detail/ODLodl~29~29~132404~143719
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- mul
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- http://data.theeuropeanlibrary.org/Collection/a1009a
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- United Kingdom
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First time published on Europeana
- 2014-06-04T07:50:59.203Z
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- 2014-06-04T07:50:59.203Z