Book

Scope note

Collections of wood or ivory tablets, or sheets of paper, parchment, or similar material, that are blank, written on, or printed, and are strung or bound together; commonly many folded and bound sheets containing continuous printing or writing; especially, when printed, a bound volume, or a volume of some size.

This term has 2,581 records attributed within our system.

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AAT
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Document type
Object category
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Technique

Getty AAT term number

300028051

Broader Terms used

<information artifacts by physical form>

Narrower Terms used

<books by conditions of production>
<books by external form>
<books by internal form>

Term used for

books
codices (gathered leaves)

Created

13yrs ago

Connected records

De consolatione philosophie [Uniform title: De consolatione philosophiae. Dutch & Latin]

Maker(s)

Author: Boethius
Printer: Keysere, Arend de

An image of Painting

Portrait of Nicolas-Pierre Tiolier c. 1817

Maker(s)

Painter: Picot, François Eduard

O Ewigkeit - du Donnerwort, so spanne meine Glieder aus

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Kokoschka, Oskar

An image of Book

Jerusalem The Emanation of the Giant Albion.

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Blake, William
Printer: Tatham, Frederick (Probable)

An image of Book

Nogaku zue (Pictures of Nō)

Maker(s)

Designer: Kōgyo, Tsukioka

Rights of man being an answer to Mr. Burke's attack on the French Revolution

Maker(s)

Author: Paine, Thomas

An image of PB 18-2020_f5v_raked_1_201811_amt49_mas.tif

Astronomicum Caesareum

Maker(s)

Author: Apian, Peter
Bookbinder: Cheese, Edward

The Towneley lectionary : illuminated for Cardinal Alessandro Farneseby Giulio Clovio : The New York Public Library, Astor, Lenox and Tilden Foundations Manuscript 91 / described by Jonathan J.G. Alexander.

Maker(s)

Author: Alexander, J. J. G.
Contributor: Wainwright, Clive
Contributor: Towneley, Simon, Sir
Publisher: Roxburghe Club
Printer: Smith Settle Limited

Thomas Hardy

Maker(s)

Painter: John, Augustus Edwin

An image of Painting

St Jerome and St Francis; reverse, Mary Magdalene embracing The Cross

Maker(s)

Painter: Giovanni dal Ponte (Giovanni di Marco)

An image of Print

Preludium II

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Blake, William

An image of Painting

St Augustine

Maker(s)

Painter: Carlone, Carlo Innocenzo

The Marriage of Heaven and Hell by William Blake

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Blake, William

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