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GIRDLE BOOKS


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COVERED GIRDLE BOOKS

Often members of nobility are seen with small books in their hands or hanging from a girdle in paintings of the Renaissance. Usually these were prayer books or "books of hours" and many still exist in museums and private collections. These books were often very ornate, covered with leather or fabric and embellished with embroidery and adorned with gold, silver, pearls and precious gems.

Girdle Text Books


A 2 3/4" X 3 1/4" text book that has been covered with brocade or velvet and tied closed with a ribbon. It hangs from a doubled cord for attaching to your girdle/belt.


Please choose from the following titles:

Shakespeare-The Bard's Guide to Abuses & Affronts
Love Sonnets of Shakespeare
Bible Stories
Aesops Fables
My Servant Moses
Irish Blessings
Constellations
Tarot
Palm Reading


GA6A
Brocade Plain Girdle Book
$28.00
GA6B
Velvet Medallion Girdle Book
$35.00
GA6C
Brocade Beaded Girdle Book (Pictured)
$45.00
Covered Address Books


These 3" X 4" covered books contain an address book for all those new people you meet at events and faires! Covered with plain brocade or velvet medallion and held closed with ribbon ties, it has an attached doubled cord for hanging from girdle/belt.




GA7A
Plain Brocade Address Book
$28.00
GA7B
Medallion Address Book
$35.00
GA7C
Beaded Girdle Book (Pictured)
$45.00

Mirror Book

In the mid-sixteenth century it was fashionable to disguise the pocket mirror as a little book, looking like a prayer book. A small hand-mirror concealed in "a little book with an embroidered cover" was found among the possession of Anna, "Queen of the Romans," consort of the future Emperor Maximilian II, on her death in 1547. The courtiers at the court of King Henry III of France carried their mirrors in book form in their right-hand breeches pockets. Queen Margaret of Spain, wife of King Philip III, had a pocket-mirror in a book cover set in enamelled gold.
Mirror Book


A small oval mirror mounted on a wooden form disguised as a small book with a plain brocade cover that ties shut with ribbons. Hangs from a doubled cord for attaching to a girdle/belt.
Black only

OUT OF STOCK
GA3A
Plain Brocade Mirror Book
$28.00


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