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front cover The Holy Court (1663)

The book is quarter leather. It has obviously been rebound at some point after some damage, as some of the pages are trimmed.

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Added: 2007-10-13

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fore-edge The Holy Court (1663)

The fore-edge of the book: you’re looking at the front of the book, the opposite to the spine. It is marbled, a decoration that also served to seal the edges of the pages so that the book can be duste [...]

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Added: 2012-05-14

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Holy Court Book decorated leather spine The Holy Court (1663)

It’s an antique! This leather-bound book was produced in 1663, although it has for sure been rebound more than once in the meantime. Here is the spine of the book, with gold lettering and tooled deco [...]

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Added: 2011-01-30

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Hoy Court leather-bound spine gold decorations The Holy Court (1663)

Detail from the spine of the book (the back edge with the writing on it): I collected the five hand-tooled gold decorations together.

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Added: 2011-01-30

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Bookplate The Holy Court (1663)

This bookplate, or “ex libris” as they are sometimes called, is pasted inside the cover of “The Holy Court.” The pencil writing at the top right is a bookseller’s annotation from the 1980s and is mode [...]

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Added: 2007-06-21

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Bookplate detail: family crest The Holy Court (1663)

The coat of arms from the bookplate. it is surmounted by a dragon’s head, and there is a bird, perhaps a falcon, in the coat of arms itself. This is a detail from the Bookplate image.

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Added: 2007-06-21

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Flavius Constantine The Holy Court (1663)

The Emperor Constantine: Imp. Cæs. Flavius Constan. Aug. I will shew to Christian Nobility its source in the life of the prime Gentleman of Christianity. If we respect Antiquity, Greatness, and Dignit [...]

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Added: 2011-02-03

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Boetius The Holy Court (1663)

Anicius Manlius Severinus Boetius (A.D. 480 – 524/5). It is not a good scan, unfortunately, even though I did it at 2400dpi as usual. Behold here how I make a great Statesman to walk along in his rank [...]

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Added: 2007-06-09

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Title Page, Historical Observations The Holy Court (1663)

This title page occurs maybe three quarters of the way through the book; probably the book was published in separate sections and has been bound into a single volume. I made a separate image for the C [...]

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Added: 2007-11-06

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Crown from title page at p. 637 The Holy Court (1663)

A woodcut of a crown, used as decoration on the title page of Disturbers of the Holy Court.

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Added: 2007-10-13

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Portraits of Samuel and Daniel The Holy Court (1663)

These two portraits were made on a single plate (probably a woodcut or wood engraving); no source is given for the likenesses (or possibly unlikenesses) of these two characters from the scriptures. T [...]

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Added: 2009-12-13

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Daniel The Holy Court (1663)

Wood-engraved portrait of Daniel taken from the picture of Daniel and Samuel, in the section entitled The Statesmen, following on from Moses. DAniel entred into the Court by Captivity, stayed there by [...]

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Added: 2009-12-13

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