Miscellany of art and power in the armorial bindings of the Archbishop’s Library of Granada

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DOI:

https://doi.org/10.14195/2182-7974_38_2_4

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Provenance information, Archiepiscopal Library of Granada, Spain, Conservation, Armorial bindings, Bibliographic heritage

Abstract

The Archbishop's Library of Granada, located in the Major Seminary “San Cecilio” and integrated into the Archdiocesan Library Network, treasures historical bindings of high artistic value and outstanding former owners among its holdings. This binomial is manifested in a set of books dated between the 16th and 18th centuries, richly ornamented with heraldic elements. With the aim of contributing to the dissemination of this unknown bibliographic heritage and providing the archiepiscopal collection with a new description tool, the identification, technical analysis of the construction elements, ornamental description and evaluation of the conservation state of an illustrative sample of five armorial bindings are presented. The provenance data of these specimens is also studied, relating this collection to those preserved in other libraries.

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Published

2025-12-18

Issue

Vol. 38 No. 2 (2025)

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Estudos

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