Interessante lavoro sui libri antichi: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Bookbindings_from_Koninklijke_Bi...

-------- Messaggio inoltrato -------- Oggetto: [Glamtools] [Image donation] 760 historical bookbindings (National Library of the Netherlands) Data: Fri, 11 Mar 2016 11:27:56 +0000 Mittente: Olaf Janssen

Hi everybody,

If you like nicely decorated books , this one is for you:

Last month the KB used the GLAMwiki toolset to donate 760 historical bookbindings from the period 1100-1875 (public domain) to Commons : https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Bookbindings_from_Koninklijke_Bi...

The bindings range from sober ones in leather and parchment to richly decorated in textile, silver or tortoise shell. They give a small insight into how historical binding techniques were used and how successive decorative styles developed over time. In the details one can recognize the requests of patrons, the craftsmanship of the binders and the preferences of collectors.

The current donation is a small selection from the larger collection of some 12.000 bindings the KB takes care of: https://www.kb.nl/en/resources-research-guides/kb-collections/bookbindings-a....

With kind regards

Olaf Janssen

Wikipedia & open data coordinator

Koninklijke Bibliotheek - National Library of the Netherlands olaf.janssen@kb.nl