{"id":480,"date":"2013-08-08T16:39:08","date_gmt":"2013-08-08T20:39:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/scref\/?p=480"},"modified":"2013-08-08T16:39:15","modified_gmt":"2013-08-08T20:39:15","slug":"binding-of-the-day-de-thou-plus-second-wife","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/scref\/2013\/08\/08\/binding-of-the-day-de-thou-plus-second-wife\/","title":{"rendered":"Binding of the Day: de Thou (plus second wife)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This binding is from the famous collection of Jacques-Auguste de Thou, whose melding of his arms with both of his wives was one of the sweet stories in Jan Storm van Leeuwen&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rarebookschool.org\/courses\/binding\/b10\/\" target=\"_blank\">Rare Book School class<\/a> this year (if you are at all interested, and haven&#8217;t already: take this class!). Though I frankly can&#8217;t remember which coat of arms was which, the catalog record for today&#8217;s book, <a href=\"http:\/\/hollis.harvard.edu\/?itemid=|library\/m\/aleph|005274436\" target=\"_blank\">NC6.Em663.599r<\/a>, helps me by pointing out that this is the arms of him and his second wife,\u00a0\u00a0Gasparde de La Chastre. Though the book was published in 1599, this would date the binding to after 1602. It is bound in red morocco.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/scref\/files\/2013\/08\/IMG_2061.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-481\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/scref\/files\/2013\/08\/IMG_2061-193x300.jpg\" alt=\"NC6 Em663 599r upper cover, de Thou\" width=\"193\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/scref\/files\/2013\/08\/IMG_2061-193x300.jpg 193w, https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/scref\/files\/2013\/08\/IMG_2061-661x1024.jpg 661w, https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/scref\/files\/2013\/08\/IMG_2061.jpg 1295w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 193px) 100vw, 193px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/scref\/files\/2013\/08\/IMG_2062.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-482\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/scref\/files\/2013\/08\/IMG_2062-95x300.jpg\" alt=\"NC6 Em663 599r spine, de Thou\" width=\"95\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/scref\/files\/2013\/08\/IMG_2062-95x300.jpg 95w, https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/scref\/files\/2013\/08\/IMG_2062-324x1024.jpg 324w, https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/scref\/files\/2013\/08\/IMG_2062.jpg 611w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 95px) 100vw, 95px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/scref\/files\/2013\/08\/IMG_2063.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-483\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/scref\/files\/2013\/08\/IMG_2063-187x300.jpg\" alt=\"NC6 Em663 599r lower cover, de Thou\" width=\"187\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/scref\/files\/2013\/08\/IMG_2063-187x300.jpg 187w, https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/scref\/files\/2013\/08\/IMG_2063-638x1024.jpg 638w, https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/scref\/files\/2013\/08\/IMG_2063.jpg 1277w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 187px) 100vw, 187px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This binding is from the famous collection of Jacques-Auguste de Thou, whose melding of his arms with both of his wives was one of the sweet stories in Jan Storm van Leeuwen&#8217;s Rare Book School class this year (if you are at all interested, and haven&#8217;t already: take this class!). Though I frankly can&#8217;t remember [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2032,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[45106],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-480","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bookbinding"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/scref\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/480","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/scref\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/scref\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/scref\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2032"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/scref\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=480"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/scref\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/480\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":488,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/scref\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/480\/revisions\/488"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/scref\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=480"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/scref\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=480"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/scref\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=480"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}