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Style 1 17

Gospel Book with Commentaries
Byzantium, Constantinople · c. 1000–1100
Cleveland Museum of Art
bok, book
Sweden
Museum of Ethnography
Book of Hours (Use of Paris)
The Bedford Master (French, Paris, active c. 1405–30) · c. 1420
Cleveland Museum of Art
bok, book
Sweden
Museum of Ethnography
bok, book
Sweden
Museum of Ethnography
Calendar
Johannes Regiomontanus · 1476
Art Institute of Chicago
bok, book
Sweden
Museum of Ethnography
bok, book
Sweden
Museum of Ethnography
bok, book
Sweden
Museum of Ethnography
bok, book
Sweden
Museum of Ethnography
Inkwell
Nicholas Amantea · c. 1939
National Gallery of Art
Bible, book, book
Sweden
Museum of Ethnography
bibel, bok, book
Sweden
Museum of Ethnography
bok, book
Sweden
Museum of Ethnography
Gospel Book with Evangelist Portraits: Saint Matthew
Master of the House-Book (German, c. 1470–1500) · c. 1480
Cleveland Museum of Art
bok, lärobok, book
Sweden
Museum of Ethnography
Still Life with Books and Musical Instruments
Vermeulen, Jan · 1638-1674
SMK – National Gallery of Denmark

Style 2 12

De Gli Habiti Antichi, et Moderni di Diuerse Parti del Mondo Libri Dve, Fatti da Cesare Vecellio et con discoursi da Lui Dichiarti. Con Privilegio"
Cesare Vecellio (Italian, c. 1521–1601) · 1590
Art Institute of Chicago
Text, folio 166 (verso), from a Gospel Book with Commentaries
Byzantium, Constantinople · c. 1000–1100
Cleveland Museum of Art
bok, book
Sweden
Museum of Ethnography
Text, folio 403 (verso), from a Gospel Book with Commentaries
Byzantium, Constantinople · c. 1000–1100
Cleveland Museum of Art
Text, folio 65 (verso), from a Gospel Book with Commentaries
Byzantium, Constantinople · c. 1000–1100
Cleveland Museum of Art
Book of Hours
Netherlandish (Utrecht) · c. 1420 (20th century binding)
Art Institute of Chicago
Text, folio 89 (recto), from a Gospel Book with Commentaries
Byzantium, Constantinople · c. 1000–1100
Cleveland Museum of Art
Text, folio 80 (verso), from a Gospel Book with Commentaries
Byzantium, Constantinople · c. 1000–1100
Cleveland Museum of Art
The Visitation, from a Book of Hours
Workshop of the Master of the Ghent Privileges · c. 1440-1445
Art Institute of Chicago
Text, folio 151 (recto), from a Gospel Book with Commentaries
Byzantium, Constantinople · c. 1000–1100
Cleveland Museum of Art
Book of Hours, Use of Paris
Simon Vostre · 1508
Art Institute of Chicago
Text, folio 131 (verso), from a Gospel Book with Commentaries
Byzantium, Constantinople · c. 1000–1100
Cleveland Museum of Art

Style 3 8

Gospel Book with Evangelist Portraits: Saint John
Master of the House-Book (German, c. 1470–1500) · c. 1480
Cleveland Museum of Art
Gospel Book with Evangelist Portraits: Decorated Initial
Master of the House-Book (German, c. 1470–1500) · c. 1480
Cleveland Museum of Art
Gospel Book with Evangelist Portraits: Decorated Initial
Master of the House-Book (German, c. 1470–1500) · c. 1480
Cleveland Museum of Art
Gospel Book with Evangelist Portraits: Saint Luke
Master of the House-Book (German, c. 1470–1500) · 1480–1500
Cleveland Museum of Art
Gospel Book with Evangelist Portraits: Decorated Initial
Master of the House-Book (German, c. 1470–1500) · c. 1480
Cleveland Museum of Art
Gospel Book with Evangelist Portraits: Decorated Initial
Master of the House-Book (German, c. 1470–1500) · c. 1480
Cleveland Museum of Art
Gospel Book with Evangelist Portraits: Saint Mark
Master of the House-Book (German, c. 1470–1500) · c. 1480
Cleveland Museum of Art
Leaf from a Book of Hours: St. Matthew
Limbourg Brothers (Netherlandish) · c. 1415–20
Cleveland Museum of Art

Style 4 3

Notebook
Germany · 19th century
Art Institute of Chicago
Picture Book: Selected Insects (Ehon mushi erabi)
Kitagawa Utamaro 喜多川 歌麿 · 1788
Art Institute of Chicago
Frontispiece for Book 4, in Eight books of Ornament
William Delacour, French, 1741 – 1767; François Vivares, French, 1709 – 1782 · 1740s
Smithsonian

Named in the museum's description 9

The book is small, hidden or only part of the story in these works, so they're shown whole.

Book Binding
Iran · Qajar dynasty (1796–1925), 1822, 18th/19th century
Art Institute of Chicago
Irish and American Bar, Rue Royale—The Chap Book
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec · 1895
Art Institute of Chicago
bok, book
Sweden
Museum of Ethnography
Christlicher Seelen-Schatz Ausserlesener Gebetter
Maria Joseph Clement Kaukol (artist-engraver as well as editor/author) · 1729
National Gallery of Art
Buddhist Manuscript Cover with the Bodhisattvas Avalokiteshvara and Manjushri
Tibet · c. 1300
Art Institute of Chicago
bok, book
Jami, Abd al-Rahman
Museum of Ethnography
Gospel Book with Evangelist Portraits: Decorated Initial
Master of the House-Book (German, c. 1470–1500) · c. 1480
Cleveland Museum of Art
bok, book
Sweden · 1921
Museum of Ethnography
bok, påse, book
Sweden
Museum of Ethnography