File:Chirurgia e graeco in latinum conversa (Smithsonian) front cover.jpg

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Artist
binder :
Josse Schavye  (1822–1905)  wikidata:Q56644726
 
Alternative names
Josse-Corneille-Eugène Schavye; J. Schavye
Description Belgian bookbinder
Date of birth/death 1822 Edit this at Wikidata 1905 Edit this at Wikidata
Work location
City of Brussels Edit this at Wikidata
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artist QS:P170,Q56644726
Description

Book binding by J. Schavye of Chirurgia è Graeco in Latinum conuersa (Paris, 1544). "Binding in blind-tooled leather[?] with raised bands". Notice of Smithsonian Libraries's Catalog.

This book could be bound in human skin. It has a small gilt-lettered red leather panel mounted on front paste-down endpaper, stamped in Latin, Hic liber femineo corio convestitus est (“This book is bound in a woman’s skin.”) source

An other book bound by the same binder (Josse Schavye) and also subsequently owned by the same collector (Belgian physician and bibliophile André Uytterhoeven (1799-1868)), had been bound by human skin, confirmed by peptide mass fingerprinting in 2015 : De humani corporis fabrica by Andreas Vesalius from Brown University.
Date 1863
date QS:P571,+1863-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Medium Leather
institution QS:P195,Q1609326
Current location
Dibner Library Lectures on the History of Science and Technology
Accession number
RD30 .N53 1544 folio
Place of creation City of Brussels
Object history André Uytterhoeven (1799-1868), former owner
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Source Tooled cover of Chirurgia
Author Smithsonian Libraries
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  • Small gilt-lettered red leather panel mounted on front paste-down endpaper, reading: Hic liber femineo corio convestitus est (“This book is bound in a woman’s skin”)
    Small gilt-lettered red leather panel mounted on front paste-down endpaper, reading: Hic liber femineo corio convestitus est (“This book is bound in a woman’s skin”)

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