Missal box

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58499025

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Title

Missal box

Date / Origin

Date Issued: 1490 (Approximate)
Place: Paris?

Library Location

Spencer Collection
Shelf locator: Spencer Coll. French 1490

Genres

Missal Boxes
Boxes
Bindings (Gathered Matter Components)

Notes

Content: Wrought iron over wood; with lock and with rings to hold a carrying strap.
Biographical/Historical: 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)

Physical Description

Extent: 17 x 10 x 9 cm in case 19 cm

Identifiers

RLIN/OCLC: 131727291
NYPL Catalog ID (bnumber): b16833124
NYPL Exhibition ID: TL 20.01.BEL38
Universal Unique Identifier (UUID): 46ffc920-d92e-013a-8bce-0242ac110003

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Type Of Resource

Three Dimensional Object

Date Issued

1490

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