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Title	Lyra germanica : hymns for the Sundays & chief festivals of the Christian year
Uniform title	Versuch eines allgemeinen gesang und gebetbuchs. English. Selections
Description	Text sewn on two tapes. Bevelled boards. Gilt edges. Brown pebble-grain cloth, with red pebble-grain cloth onlay, which forms the mandorla. Both covers identically blocked in gold and blind and relief. On the borders, the fillets are blocked in gold, the outermost with dog-tooth pattern. Inside this, intersecting pairs of three fillets are blocked in gold on the borders. Between the pairs, a repeating pattern is blocked of stars in gold and five dots in relief. The heads of a man, a lion, an ox and an eagle are blocked on the four corners. Strapwork weaves around these heads. In the mandorla, a crowned angel is blocked at prayer, with an open book in front. The angel's wings rise to form the outer edge of a lyre, with the points of the angel's crown rising to become the strings of the lyre. The title: '\| Lyra \| Germanica \|'is blocked in gold above and below the lyre. The border of the mandorla contains the quotes, blocked in gold: \| 'SING UNTO THE LORD. BLESS HIS NAME. SHOW FORTH HIS SALVATION FROM DAY TO DAY. GIVE THANKS UNTO THE LORD FOR HE IS GOOD. FOR HIS MERCY ENDURETH FOREVER.' A small trefoil formed by a gold fillet, plus hatch gold within is blocked at the head, tail and sides of the mandorla. The trefoil at the head has the word: '\| IHS \|' in relief within the trefoil; at the tail, the trefoil has: '\| INRI \| L \|' in relief. The trefoil on the left contains a serpent winding round a cross blocked within. The trefoil on the right has a heart blocked in gold which contains a Byzantine cross in relief. The spine has an upper panel consisting of two horizontal fillets blocked in gold enclosing strapwork of two thin outer fillets and a thick inner fillet. The central rectangular panel has a border fillet blocked in gold in which there is a repeating pattern of dots blocked in relief. Within the panel is strapwork consisting of intersecting semi-circles which form three consecutive mandorlas and, outside each at the head and tail, triangles blocked in gold. The triangles each contain a single trefoil blocked in relief. The mandorlas consist of a thin outer fillet blocked in gold, a thick inner fillet blocked in gold containing a repeating pattern of dots blocked in relief pattern. Within this are from outer to inner 1) another thin fillet, blocked in gold, a thin double fillet containing a repeating pattern of dots blocked in gold; and 3) a thin fillet blocked in gold. In the topmost mandorla are in relief each on a separate solid panel blocked in gold, the words: '\| Lyra \| Germanica \| WINKWORTH \|'. In the central mandorla is a cross pattée consisting of four arms outlined in a fillet blocked in gold and an inner filling of parallel fillets blocked in gold. The figure of a dove blocked in gold extends diagonally in four directions from the centre of the cross. At the head and foot of the cross is the five-pointed star blocked in gold with star-points blocked in relief at each of its interstices. In the lowest mandorla is a shield blocked in gold on which, blocked in relief, are the words: '\| Illustrated \| by \| JOHN \| LEIGHTON \| etc.\|' The lowest panel is an intricate pattern of tracery consisting of two thin fillets and one central fillet blocked in gold intersecting with a thick fillet decorated with a repeating pattern of dots blocked in relief. On this pattern is superimposed a cartouche bearing the words: '¦LONDON¦LONGMAN¦AND CO¦'
Cover Designer	Leighton, John, 1822-1912
Author	Bunsen, Christian Karl Josias, Freiherr von, 1791-1860 Winkworth, Catherine, 1827-1878 (translator)
Publisher of Original	Longman, Green, Longman and Roberts
Place of Publication	London, England
Date Original	1861
Engraver	Bolton, Thomas, fl. 1851-1893 Cooper, James Davis, 1823-1904 DeWilde, G. Green, W., engraver Harral, Horace Leighton, H., engraver Murden, W., engraver Pearson, G., engraver Swain, James B. (James Barrett), 1820-1895 Armitage, Edward, 1817-1896 Flaxman, John, 1755-1826 Lawless, Matthew James, 1837-1864 Keene, Charles, 1823-1891 Marks, S. Dalziel, Edward, 1817-1905 Dalziel, George, 1815-1902
Illustrator	Leighton, John, 1822-1912
Measurements	172 x 230 x 30 mm.
Call number	PEATTIE No. 18
Material	Brown Red Pebble grain Book cloth
Technique	Beveling Blind blocking Gold blocking Relief (Decorative arts) Gilding Applique Hatching
Style/Period	19th century
Subject	Bookbinding--England--19th century--Specimens
Design element	Fillets (Bookbinding) Almond-shaped Stars Dots (Art) Men Lions Trefoils Heart (Shape) Strapwork Semicircles Triangle Shields Tracery Cartouches, Ornamental (Decorative arts) Oxen Eagles Angels Onlays Crowns Lyre Trefoils Crosses Serpents Panels (Ornament areas)
Coverage-Geographic	Europe--Great Britain--England
Resource Type	Binding
Source	Print original in the Roger and Marlene Peattie Collection
Type	Still Image
Format	Image/jpeg
Current repository	Memorial University of Newfoundland. Libraries
Collection	Decorative Nineteenth Century Trade Bindings
Bibliographic record	http://info.library.mun.ca/uhtbin/cgisirsi/x/0/0/5?user_id=REMOTEWEB&searchdata1=ocm09365043{001}
Digital Date	2005
CONTENTdm file name	238.cpd