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front coverThe 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-edgeThe 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 spineThe 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 decorationsThe 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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BookplateThe 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 crestThe 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 ConstantineThe 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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BoetiusThe 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 ObservationsThe 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. 637The 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 DanielThe 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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DanielThe 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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Typographical ornament or printer’s flowerThe Holy Court (1663)

Ornaments like this were very popular in 17th and 18th century France; they are getting a resurgene in popularity on the Web. This one shows a ring of five circles, with a central ring too; the shado [...]

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Added: 2010-01-27

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SamuelThe Holy Court (1663)

Wood-engraved portrait of Samuel taken from the picture of Daniel and Samuel, in the section entitled The Statesmen, following on from Moses. SAmuel that seemed to have been born for nothing but to pr [...]

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Added: 2009-12-13

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Mary StuartThe Holy Court (1663)

The true Portraiture of Princesse Mary Queene of Scotland and Dowager of France. I left the calligraphic caption in the image, as it seems well done. The author of the book is extremely biased in favo [...]

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Added: 2011-01-30

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