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Book binding

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Decorated binding made of silver or other precious material to protect a book.

Translations

  • Hebrewכריכה
  • GermanBucheinband
  • RussianПереплет
  • FrenchReliure
  • DutchBoekband
  • ItalianRilegatura
  • CzechKnižní vazba
  • HungarianKönyvkötés
  • SpanishEncuadernación de libro
  • GreekΕπένδυση βιβλίου
  • PolishOprawa książkowa
  • Arabicمجلد الكتاب
  • Yiddishאײַנבונד פֿון אַ בוך
  • LadinoLigadura

Bibliography

Avrin, Leila. “The Sephardi Box Binding.” Scripta Hierosolymitana: Publications of the Hebrew University, Jerusalem, ed. Dov Schidorsky, vol. 29, Jerusalem: The Hebrew University Magness Press, 1989, pp. 27-43.

Di Castro, Alberto et al. Jewish Book Bindings. Rome: Araldo De Luca, 2013.

Edelmann, R. “Hebraiske bøger med sølvbind [Hebrew books in silver bindings].” Fund og Forskning, no. 8,01-01-1961, pp. 128-39.

Lasar, Hava. “Jonah’ the Tower and the Lions: An 18th Century Italian Silver Book Binding.” Journal of Jewish Art, ed. Bezalel Narkiss, vol. 3/4, 1976-1977, pp. 58-73.

Mann, Vivian B. “‘Defining Jewish Art’ — The Case of Two Eighteenth Century Bookcovers.” A Crown for a King: Studies in Jewish Art, History and Archaeology in Memory of Stephen S. Kayser, ed. Shalom Sabar et al., Berkeley and Jerusalem: Judah l. Magnes Museum and Gefen Publishing House, 2000, pp. 193-207.

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