The evolution of a craft : post-Byzantine bookbinding between the late fifteenth and the early eighteenth century from the libraries of the Iviron Monastery in Mount Athos/Greece and the St. Catherine's monastery in Sinai/Egypt
The thesis investigates the ways through which the Greek-style bookbinding was gradually supplanted by European bookbinding, a process which occurred between the late fifteenth century, after the fall of the Byzantine Empire, and the early eighteenth century. The Greek-style bookbinding is a distinc...
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University of the Arts London
2004
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| Online Access: | http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.418691 |